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[done] Slackware vs. Arch / swaret

Posted: 30. Dec 2009, 09:29
by damNageHack
A little bit old and maybe then partly outdated, but cool:

http://www.osnews.com/story/8761/Arch_L ... All_Worlds

Some good hints are in the article, for example http://sourceforge.net/projects/swaret/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Has somebody experience in using swaret? What could be an (dis)advantage vs. gslapt?

There is a patch to get swaret work with the new package formats: http://sotirov-bg.net/slackpack/news.cgi?id=20

Re: Slackware vs. Arch / swaret

Posted: 30. Dec 2009, 09:55
by gapan
I think swaret is (or at least appears to be) abandoned. I did have a look at that a long time ago and if I remember right, it was using a qt based gui and didn't have most of the features slapt-get has.

Re: Slackware vs. Arch / swaret

Posted: 30. Dec 2009, 12:46
by thenktor
gapan wrote:I think swaret is (or at least appears to be) abandoned. I did have a look at that a long time ago
Yep, same here.
gapan wrote: and if I remember right, it was using a qt based gui and didn't have most of the features slapt-get has.
I did not even know it had a GUI. :)

Re: Slackware vs. Arch / swaret

Posted: 30. Dec 2009, 12:57
by thenktor
And as far as I remember swaret doesn't support multiple repos.