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From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:39:14
Message-Id: 200703272335.00054.csawtell@paradise.net.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems) by Luca Barbato
1 On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > Stuart Longland wrote:
3 > > Portage itself, does take a long time to load its libraries. I'm yet to
4 > > try Paludis (I'm one of the few MIPS devs that doesn't use it yet), but
5 > > do hear good things about it. Perhaps some of the concepts used in
6 > > Paludis could be applied in portage, in order to speed up performance
7 > > when searching or querying?
8 >
9 > I'd advise everybody to try paludis and pkgcore to see how the
10 > alternatives are faring, I must say that I'm quite surprised by how fast
11 > they are.
12 Please could you reassure us that they can co-exist with portage so that one
13 can be certain that changing to either paludis or pkgcore is not
14 irriversable?
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems) Stephen Becker <spbecker@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems) Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems) Charlie Shepherd <masterdriverz@g.o>