To answer my own question, it's because the slackwarearm-current Changelog.txt contains all those kde & sendmail packages as "Added.", whereas the slackware(64)-current Changelog.txt does not. This Alien Bob post provided the answer:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4/#post4907020
To illustrate, the output of these 2 commands is very different (many more packages marked as
Added. in arm):
Code:
grep "Added\." slackwarearm-current/ChangeLog.txt
Code:
grep "Added\." slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt
I don't know the reason why these Changelogs are so different but I'm sure there's some good reason having to do with how the slackwarearm project adopts packages from the x86 project.
I normally like to run "slackpkg install-new" on a regular basis along with the updates, since new packages do get added from time to time. It looks like I'll need to stop doing that on
slackwarearm systems since the huge number of kde packages that show up swamp any other new packages that get added.
So on slackwarearm I'll be changing my standard alias:
Code:
alias spuu='slackpkg update; slackpkg upgrade-all; slackpkg install-new'
to
Code:
alias spuu='slackpkg update; slackpkg upgrade-all'