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Eli Gottlieb <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Snootix Package Manager
System name: spm
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The Snootix Package Manager is a package management program written to automate 
the compiling of source code packages.  It is written in C++, and should run 
under a base GNU/Linux system.  I think it might run under other Unices as 
well.  The cspmfile.h header contains a description of the spm file format, and 
its relation to the C++ class declared in  that header to interpret these 
files.  Spm files can be created with the cat command or any other way of 
editing text files.  When run, the program opens the specified package file and 
extracts dependency listings, a tar.bz2 of the source/binaries (it\\\'s up to 
the package developer), configuration instructions, and instructions to build 
and install the package from the tar.bz2\\\'s contents.  It then checks an 
/etc/spm.list file for the dependencies, but a flag can turn off this behavior. 
 It then unpacks the tar.bz2 in /usr/src/, appends user-submitted configuration 
parameters to the configure command, runs it to configure the source, and runs 
the build and install script.  Finally, the source is deleted.  The code is 
licensed under the GPL and copyrighted to me.  To get the source code email me, 
because I still need to get hosting to put this on the internet.  I want this 
to become a part of the GNU project, as I believe some form of package 
management is needed for most people to use computers.  If this were to happen 
I would want the project renamed the GNU Package Manager.

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