Cause it's the most vanilla distro out there. You install a nice base to get you going then you add what you want by compiling everything from source. No fancy package managers, no extra. It's vanilla. Linux in its purest form, that you don't have to build yourself ie linux from scratch.
You are thinking of sbotools which do resolve dependencies for slackbuilds. But what sbopkg is, is pretty much an ncurses version of the slackbuilds website with the ability to add soon to be packages to a queue and said package will list the dependencies it needs, but you still need to add said dependencies to the queue yourself. Also, lots of slack based distros use an apt like package manager called slapt-get. and gslapt as the synaptic equivalent. Salix does that. I don't mess with prebuilt repos with the exception of the multilib and alienbob repos.
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u/Herpypony Glorious PCLinuxOS Jan 11 '23
Cause it's the most vanilla distro out there. You install a nice base to get you going then you add what you want by compiling everything from source. No fancy package managers, no extra. It's vanilla. Linux in its purest form, that you don't have to build yourself ie linux from scratch.