On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >> So, in my opinion, you are just a pro-paludis troll. >> >> And from what I can see, trolls are the prefered audience and power behind >> paludis. > > Guys - let's try to keep this civil! > > There are lots of folks who use and like paludis who aren't trolls. I'm > among them. The main thing I like is that the dependency management tends > to work better than portage (or at least better than how portage used to > work). It also has better native support for overlays, and it is a bit more > actively developed. It also seems much faster to me - or at least it used > to be (actually - I use portage so infrequently these days that it seems to > take forever just to regenerate its various caches when I do use it - > perhaps if I used emerge --sync that might behave differently). > > On the other hand, I do understand the attitude issues associated with some > of the key developers and as pointed out in the FAQ quote it tends to show. > I'm not sure I'd actively evangelize for its use as a result. > .. > > My recommendation is to look into paludis - and feel free to try it out. Be > aware of its advantages and limitations. Then make the appropriate > decision. As Duncan pointed out it isn't an ideal package manager if you > use binary packages frequently.
Couldn't have said it more elegantly myself. ++ -- avuton -- "I've got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell." -- Christopher Walken -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
