alternate way to get a minimal slackware system

tested on 15.0/amd64

base system

just A N sets are enough to begin with from the install medium

clean-up

removepkg grub
removepkg os-prober

then within a chroot, install those

D/perl
L/glibc
L/libunistring

just to make ping wget+pki work and then

update-ca-certificates --fresh

now wget works and you’re ready to proceed without chroot

slackpkg

AP/diffutils
AP/slackpkg
L/ncurses

then

cd /etc/slackpkg/
mv mirrors mirrors.dist

man

slackpkg install man-db man-pages libseccomp groff

git

slackpkg install git brotli

tcpdump

slackpkg install tcpdump libcap-ng libpcap libnl3

additional package groups

then eventually install various package groups as follows

sbopkg

see packages-sbo

build-time

    slackpkg install \
            autoconf-2 \
            automake \
            binutils \
    bison \
    diffutils \
            flex \
            gc \
            gcc-11 \
    gettext \
    gettext-tools \
            glibc-2 \
            guile \
            kernel-headers \
    libtool \
    m4-1 \
            make \
            patch \
    pkg-config

clean-up when done

# keep that one
            #diffutils \

removepkg --terse \
    autoconf \
            automake \
            binutils \
            bison \
            flex \
            gc \
            gcc \
            gettext \
            gettext-tools \
            glibc \
            guile \
            kernel-headers \
            libtool \
            m4 \
            make \
            patch \
            pkg-config