Swaret was a program for the

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that resolves dependencies. Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features

*True library dependency resolution *Rollback capability *Logging *3rd party software repository support *Support for http, ftp, rsync, and local filesystems

History

The program was created by Luc Cottyn, and was originally called "autopkg". However, because of a conflict with another project of the same name it was renamed to swaret. It has no active maintainer.

References

External links

* {{Linux package management systems Slackware Free package management systems Linux package management-related software Linux-only free software