Hi! I was wondering why SliTaz uses tazpkg as its package manager and not aptitude and Debian's repositories? Since Debian has a lot of packages, wouldn't it be better to have APT and Debian's repos instead? What if SliTaz was based of off Debian? would it decrease the performance of Slitaz and increase its hardware requirements?
As a user of Linux Mint, I find SliTaz a bit confusing for new users to install and compile packages.
I have installed SliTaz on VirtalBox and on an old pc I found (AMD Duron 900MHz, 168MB RAM) and I truly am impressed by Slitaz; its crazy fast yet beautiful for a 100MB filesystem. Now, the only thing that I find confusing is tazpkg as the package manager; it only has like 3000 packages while Debian's repos have 30,000+ packages. Thats my question then: why not use APT and Debian's repos?