> from Michael Vetter: > just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most > interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc.
> paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment > and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for > multiple OSes. > Is anybody of you using one of them and can tell me about pros and cons? I've read a bit about paludis, the package manager in Exherbo, forked from Gentoo, but haven't got to try it yet. I am familiar with pkgsrc, use only in NetBSD where it is native. For FreeBSD, I use the FreeBSD ports, notice that pkgsrc seems to have nothing to compare to portmaster and portupgrade. In pkgsrc, you can update all packages with pkg_rolling-replace, but not so easy to update just one package/port and its dependencies. pkgsrc seems directed at BSD, where there is a distinction between packages and base system. 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. I've fallen behind on following this list, too many emails elsewhere, which is why I'm late in responding here. Tom
