A lot of people I've talked to have told me how bad Swaret is. Why is it so bad? I think it's nice to be able to type a simple command and easily have the latest KDE or something automatically installed. I don't see how it breaks stuff, all it does is download from mirrors and use pkgtools to install/remove/upgrade packaes, right? Or am I missing something?

I don't see anything wrong with it.

I use it and love it. I however don't use it to do any kernel "upgrades". I prefer to do kernel stuff all manually.

I love being able to do swaret --upgrade alsa and have it install all new alsa stuff on my box.....or swaret --upgrade abiword to get the lastest version of abiword.

Maybe someone else can justify why it's bad. I don't think it is.

Peace,
Whitehat

As with any program out there, there are people who love it and there are those who hate it. Some people like the simplicity othrs hate its simplicity. Some people have experienced "broken stuff" others have never experienced any "broken stuff". Is all up to personal taste, preferences, pet-peeves, etc.

I personally have not had any problem with Swaret so far. Granted, I have only been using Swaret for 2 weeks, but I have updated 2 full systems from 9.1 to current, the entire KDE package from one shot, etc. and all without a hitch (other than when the FTP repos had reached the limit of users, obviously). Thus so far I love it.

I would suggest that if you think of trying it, go for it and come up to your own likes/dislikes about it based on what works for you. Reading opinions and past experiences from others is great to have an idea of what to expect, but only you can get to your own conclusion of whether YOU like it and want to stick with it or not.

HTH

Regards...

it is funny how many times I have read "swaret broke my ...". I personally enjoy using swaret to upgrade everything except kernel, lilo, and ALSA. If you have reservations about what swaret is going to upgrade use the exclusion commands to keep swaret from upgrading those programs.

So far it works quite well, and I have it run as a nightly cron job.