Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: >> Stuart Longland wrote: >>> Portage itself, does take a long time to load its libraries. I'm yet to >>> try Paludis (I'm one of the few MIPS devs that doesn't use it yet), but >>> do hear good things about it. Perhaps some of the concepts used in >>> Paludis could be applied in portage, in order to speed up performance >>> when searching or querying? >> I'd advise everybody to try paludis and pkgcore to see how the >> alternatives are faring, I must say that I'm quite surprised by how fast >> they are. > Please could you reassure us that they can co-exist with portage so that one > can be certain that changing to either paludis or pkgcore is not > irriversable?
I did that on a completely clean box (my freshly reinstalled laptop) emerge pkgcore paludis fetched the paludis configuration importer ran it alternatively tested all of them doing random stuff for a while w/out seeing any problem. Obviously you should read the documentation and the advices. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
