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
