On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:52:15PM -0800, walt wrote: > On 02/04/2010 01:29 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > ...Gentoo now supports multiple package > > managers, so portage is not required either. > > I seem to be falling behind. What other package managers does gentoo support? There are two other package managers that can be used on gentoo systems that I know of. pkgcore and paludis.
However, they are supported by their developers, and, the last time I looked, gentoo's documentation still only supports portage. In that sense, portage is still gentoo's _official_ package manager, but there are alternatives if you don't want to use portage. So, python actually is not required if you use paludis. I believe pkgcore, however, requires it. William
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