debian versus slackware

[Adam Myrow]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> If you install slackware, there's something to consider.  slackware 
> recommends using the slackpkg package to do updates and upgrades.  This 
> package is fine so long as you do understand it has no means of excluding 
> packages to be upgraded.

This is not correct.  The file /etc/slackpkg/blacklist exists for just 
this purpose.