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On 08/02/2015 11:54, Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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>> from Michael Vetter: |
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>> just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most |
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>> interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc. |
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>> paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment |
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>> and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for |
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>> multiple OSes. |
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>> Is anybody of you using one of them and can tell me about pros and cons? |
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> I've read a bit about paludis, the package manager in Exherbo, forked from Gentoo, but haven't got to try it yet. |
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> I am familiar with pkgsrc, use only in NetBSD where it is native. |
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> For FreeBSD, I use the FreeBSD ports, notice that pkgsrc seems to have nothing to compare to portmaster and portupgrade. |
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> In pkgsrc, you can update all packages with pkg_rolling-replace, but not so easy to update just one package/port and its dependencies. |
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> pkgsrc seems directed at BSD, where there is a distinction between packages and base system. |
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> In Linux, I get the impression that everything is a package, including what would be part of a BSD base system and not well-covered in pkgsrc. |
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Correct. With most Linux package managers, everything is a package and |
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everything has strict dependencies. You install the bits you want and |
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the PM installs the bits it needs. |
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Gentoo is one of the very few PMs that even has a concept of @system at all |
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Alan McKinnon |
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