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

[Dave Woodfall]

On 2020-04-08 15:30,
Slackbuilds Users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> put forth the proposition:
> 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

If I might interject ;)

We need to make sure things build and are usable in the latest stable
release, not on -current.

/dave

> 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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