One thing that bothers me about slackware nowadays is something I loved when I first got it: It installys almost everything by default.

I'd like a minimal install base right now (and manually picking this in the installer ain't that easy), but back in '95, having every kind of editor, programming language, window manager, TeX etc. on disk was awesome. And then I started looking at comp.os.linux.announce and sunsite to see what's new and current and installed that manually (and dependency tracking wasn't an issue at all because a) most libraries on disk anyway -- certainly no silly "-devel" packages and b) we didn't have that many dependencies back then, when "based purely on Xlib" was a badge of honor...