(from Freshmeat)
Should I still consider it trustful?
> First of all, slapt-get caused me lots
> of Memory problems and leaks, even my
> kernel hung for a moment after upgrading
> glibc. I will NEVER use it anymore, rip
> off someone else.
Lest anyone should take this nonsense seriously, please be aware that it was written by Luc Cottyn (xbone), the author of swaret. He has been a pain in the Internet's neck for at least the past year. Last May, we received a report that he'd been spamming various IRC channels on freenode with advertisements for swaret. We asked him to explain this, and he blamed it on overzealous friends. He said he'd asked them to stop, and that was that.
Until October, anyway. Then he posted a comment on forum.swaret.org suggesting that people start spreading a rumor that slapt-get contains a trojan. He posted three such comments on linuxpackages.net in his inimitable l33t l4m3r style, and one on freshmeat (and probably at other places we don't know about). He again blamed it on his users, and I asked him to please try to get them under control.
He managed to contain himself (at least on freshmeat) until last week, when he posted the above junk on slapt-get's page and this on swaret's:
> I am VERY VERY happy for using this
> tool. Very happy, because i stopped
> using another management tool for
> slackware (broke my box, will not name
> it, go to hell). About swaret, the
> dependency support is really NEAT. My
> gnome packages were broken every time,
> and since i use swaret for about
> 5 minutes, i have no broken libraries
> anymore, because swaret fixed them!!
> -God Bless Swaret- Congratulations also
> to be part of the official slackware
> distribution!
We decided that we'd had enough, and we removed swaret from freshmeat. I wrote and told him that even if he wasn't involved in all of this, that we couldn't waste our time dealing with his childish users every few weeks.
He flew into a self-righteous flurry of emailing activity, writing us a dozen times a day to proclaim his innocence and demand justice, reaching a crescendo in which he told me: "You are like Bush, you are an American who likes war and hurt innocent people."
This went on until scoop sent him a copy of a section of freshmeat's logs which showed that the comments had been posted from the same IP address from which he updated swaret's listing a few minutes later.
He became mysteriously silent after that, and we never heard from him again.
I have no doubt that swaret is good and useful software, but if you use it, please be aware of the kind of people you're involving yourself with.
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