He says, "After you've run slackware for 14 years, you can then bitch at me for running an auto-dependency system."

You see, back before you were born, and drax0r and I were HP/UX admins - back then you were never supposed to install entire patch bundles, rather, pick and choose which ones were specific for your needs. Sometime after Solaris 2.6, the environment changed dude to security issues mostly, and Recommended Updates became the norm.

In other words, STFU, you've been running Windows since you stopped wetting yourself, and ooooh - you've discovered an easy operating system!