Slackware Global Tagfile
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Are you an expert Slackware user looking for a way to specify your
list of packages to install in a single file? Well, you're in luck!
Support has been added for a global tagfile in the Slackware installer.
Of course, we caution that this feature is intended for experts who are
used to managing their own custom package lists. Slackware does not do
any automatic package dependency resolution, so if you leave out something
important, you'll have to figure out how to fix that.

The installer looks for a global tagfile in this order:

  1. /tmp/global_tagfile
  2. slackware{,64}/global_tagfile at the root of the package tree in the ISO
     as a fallback. This might be the one you usually want to use if you have
     included it on your installer image, but that might be read-only.
     By prioritizing /tmp/global_tagfile it's possible to run the installer,
     copy slackware{,64}/global_tagfile to /tmp/global_tagfile and then make
     some last minute edits if you need to.

The global tagfile uses one package per line in the form:

  series/package

Example:

a/aaa_base
a/aaa_glibc-solibs
a/bash
a/coreutils
a/kbd
a/kmscon
a/less
ap/htop
ap/mc
ap/slackpkg
d/git
d/make
d/perl
d/python3
l/glib2
l/glibc
l/ncurses
n/ca-certificates
n/curl
n/dhcpcd
n/gnupg
n/openssh
n/wget

If the global_tagfile doesn't contain any uncommented lines with '/' then the
global_tagfile will be ignored and the regular tagfiles are used.
Only uncommented lines that contain '/' are meaningful in the global_tagfile.
All unlisted packages will be skipped.