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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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I've fallen behind on following this list, too many emails elsewhere, which is why I'm late in responding here. |
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Tom |
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