This contains any packages that I thought I needed
to install on my x86 Slackware system at the time.

Now, I think they're totally irrelevant but I have left
them here so that they can rot away, with me safe in the
knowledge that if I think "Hmm. How did I get foo working?"
I can cd in here and go "Oh yes, that Debian crazyness did the
job" and patch it all up to date and make everthing work again.

I use this sort of thing as a memory aide rather than anything
else; it's just how my mind works :-)