link wrote:

> I am currently in the process of planning a project named strop. In case
> you couldn't guess it's going to mimic the ports tree from the various
> BSD's of the world.

maybe you want to have a look at NetBSD's Port System pkgsrc. It already
works on slackware!
http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/s...slackware.html

good luck!

Stefan Riegel