jmoiron.net

I'm posting this for some feedback on the project I was thinking about yesterday. Now that I've had some time to start the backend part of it (it will be useful for scripting regardless of whether or not I go for the full glory), what do you think the usefulness of a slackware package manager front end that integrates with swaret and provides much of the information in a quick, visual way? For instance; click on a package and get what the latest version is (if its not installed, you can upgrade), the package description, the package size, files that it has in /usr/bin, packages it depends on (that you have or do not have), popular packages that depend on it.

It could do some nifty swaret configuration as well, and in general kick a lot of ass. Right now, I have most of the package info parsing done in a python module, which I was going to use for my own tool to help me keep track of what I have and what I can update. I was going to make the front end give a cvs style report of what is up to date and what can be upgraded, as well as do a lot of other neat things.

I'm going to be approaching most of the people I'm posing this question to personally, but I wanted a medium where I could save comments and look at them later.