The maintainer of swaret is looking for a new maintainer at the moment, afaik.
I use both in order to find out about dependencies in 3rd party packages. Both can be helpful, if you don't expect them to take responsibility for anything. Just like with slackpkg, installpkg, upgradepkg and removepkg it is you who is responsible.
Most of the functionality overlaps. Differences that make me use both, are:
swaret can check for missing dependencies of installed packages in your running system.
slapt-get can be restricted to manage only official packages, or only unofficial ones. The latter doesn't work perfectly the way I would like it to do, but with a little attention and care the intended effect can be achieved semi-manually.
See
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=294701&page=5
And: Be careful what you allow the tools to do. Both of them show you what they are going to do, and you can stop them doing it, if you don't want it at that very moment. Sometimes they try to upgrade "official" packages, which I don't allow them to do. I add those packages to my EXCLUDE lists.
But if you are careful, and if you do read changelogs (in short: if you take all the care you would take without these tools) both can be helpful for managing 3rd party stuff in your system.
BTW, a tool I like is kslackcheck, if you use KDE.
gargamel
