There was a graphical interface to portage named Himerge. The project
is not maintained anymore, but I know it was usable in the 2008/2009
years. The tool was convenient enough in allowing to browse in the
portage tree and control all actions of *emerge*, the command used to
manage portage . It was just an interface, with no feature added to
*emerge*. It was the graphical way to interact with *emerge*.
The alternatives include dselect and Ubuntu's package mgr.
This is another. Since they are all free, and all just front-ends,
I think we should choose the most convenient one.
I don't know whether dselect and Ubuntu's package mgr
depend on some features of .deb packages.
Meanwhile, I just read about Nix and it sounds really great.
Does it have a downside that isn't obvious?
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