[Slackbuilds-users] hope this isn't a stupid question

Dave Woodfall dave at slackbuilds.org
Wed Apr 8 14:46:40 UTC 2020


On 2020-04-08 10:44,
Glenn Becker <glenn.becker at gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
> Hi -
>
> My understanding was that SlackBuilds were 'guaranteed' to run on -stable
> rather than -current. Maybe that's wrong, or has changed?

You are correct.  That hasn't changed.

> G
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> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:31 AM mcmurchy1917techy via SlackBuilds-users <
> slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Glenn
> >
> > If you're going to use slack-current as your main system why would you
> > want to have slack-stable running in a VM? I would have thought you would
> > have wanted to develop your SlackBuilds in a VM  machine running
> > slack-current.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On 08/04/2020 14:43, Glenn Becker wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > I am thinking of buying a smallish laptop to dedicate to Slackware. I've
> > usually done double-, triple- and occasionally more- boot machines, but my
> > distro-hopping is (I think!) coming to an end.
> >
> > And I was wondering ... if I ran slack-current as my main system, but ran
> > slack-stable in a VM, could I use the latter to work on my SlackBuilds? I'm
> > by no means well-versed in what is possible or impossible with VMs.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Glenn Becker
> >
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