r1w1s1 on Nostr: I sometimes wonder why not everyone sees this as one of Slackware's biggest ...

I sometimes wonder why not everyone sees this as one of Slackware's biggest strengths.

installpkg, removepkg and upgradepkg are simple shell scripts that you can actually read and understand. SlackBuilds are just shell scripts too. Then you have SlackBuilds.org: you can use something like sbopkg, build things manually, or do what I do and maintain your own repository with selected packages based on SBo, sometimes using different versions.

There's a lot of flexibility there without adding layers of complexity or sacrificing the stability of the base system. That's one of the things I appreciate most about Slackware.