uberports is a free (as in freedom of speech) and hackable Slackbuild manager that works just like BSD Ports.
- First of all, competition is good, principally if it's offering more freedom;
- Another implementations (like sport/slackports or retroports) are GPL'ed unnecessarily (see my thoughts at COPYRIGHT, in the manual page);
- The cited above implementations are hard to read/hack and bloated.
So, at the height of my ego, I've thought that I could do it better, and I did it along with a video (in Portuguese, without subtitles for now) showing the process, which is linked below.
uberports
is strongly inspired by Jefferson "slackjeff" Carneiro's retroports
, so it possibly wouldn't exist as we know if it weren't for Carneiro's work.
And of course: both wouldn't exist if it weren't for the years of work by the Slackbuilds and Slackware team.
Thanks to all!
Jefferson Carneiro's retroports: http://github.com/slackjeff/retroports
Arthur Bacci's 99ports: https://github.com/arthurbacci/99ports
uberports
(8) is licensed under the same license than Slackware pkgtools
, which is a ISC-like license.
You can read it here: http://pindorama.tk/texto/licencas/copycenter/VOLKERDINGS-SLACKWARE_LICENSE.html