"Snub" is a Python script, it is developed as an alternative to native Slackware Linux install/remove utilities - installpkg and removepkg. It use a SQLite database as store for all data related to installed packages files. "Snub" is package's file manager.

Advantages

• it fast. Time required for installing glibc-2.7 to filesystem and database is about 30 seconds on modern enough hardware.

• real checking of files against other packages with same name during package removing

• md5 signing of each file, files access rights, mtime, owner id, group id is also stored

• check of md5 records against files (full system scan and per package)

• inods of each file stored in database - inode search by file name

• package installation with no options - just package file name

• package removing with no options - just an installed package gziped log file from special path

• package search by it's file - it is also give easy dependency search

• it is build on top of Python and its SQLite module - any other application can use database

• it can be internationalized through Python gettext facility

Bugs

• security checks on doinst.sh is to much simple

• package description from slack-desc is not stored

• only basic ability to parse Slackware-style named packages.

• it is development version

• not all options implemented

• database format may be changed in future

• for now it support only Gzip and Bzip2 compressed files

• it need Python 3.1