Status and Roadmap

slacker is in beta / work-in-progress. It is usable and tested, but evolving.

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Where it runs

Target	Status
Slackware64-current	builds and runs — for testers
Slackware 15.0 (64-bit)	not built for it, and never will be
Slackware-current (32-bit)	not ready yet — coming soon

The current release is 0.6.0. Track releases at https://forge.slackware.nl/rizitis/slacker/releases.

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What works today

• Full slackpkg action parity plus slackpkg+-style multi-repo priority.
• The strict priority model — no silent migration, no downgrade. See Repositories and Priority.
• mirror/<subpath> URLs and the subtree flag for extra/testing/patches.
• .dep dependency resolution (same-repo, recursive). See Dependencies.
• GPG verification, trust-on-first-use key pinning, and the quarantine model. See Security.
• The history command — a package-change timeline from the pkgtools admin dirs, covering changes by any tool. See Package History.
• Blacklist with regex / series/ / @repo scoping. See Blacklist.
• Templates, clean-system, clean-cache, new-config, and the rest of the 31 actions. See Commands.

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Ideas on the horizon

These are explored or planned, not promised:

• 32-bit Slackware-current support.
• show-changelog for non-official repositories.
• Richer "why was this kept?" output in upgrade/clean plans (showing the protecting source + priority inline).
• Tabular output for the few commands that still use single-line output.

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Contributing and feedback

• Issues / feature requests: https://forge.slackware.nl/rizitis/slacker/issues
• Hacking on it: see Contributing.
• Packaging it: see Building and Releasing.

Because slacker runs as root and touches your installed system, please test new features in --dry-run first, and report anything surprising — encoding quirks, arch edge cases, and paging behaviour are exactly the things that need real-box testing.