Jeffrey Froman wrote:
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> I can understand the fun and sense of craft in compiling *everything* from
> source, but such a hobby is not how I prefer to spend to my time. Probably
> LFS would be better for that than Slackware anyway, but I have heard it
> said that once you get LFS just the way you want it, and running perfectly,
> you will find that you have a system indistinguishable from Slackware :-)
>
> Jeffrey

Well, there are some exceptions Sometimes a package maker doesn't
insure that all the optional dependencies are met. I would guess that
this might be done to keep the package somewhat modular. I use both LFS
5.1.1/BLFS 5.1 and Slackware 10.0, both of which include Gnome 2.6.1.
Nautilus was designed so that if a directory is changed by some other
process, the change is immediately reflected in Nautilus. This works in
LFS but not in Slackware, at least on my systems. However, I must admit
that I still use Emacs/dired for working on directories

Regards,
Sedge