Michael, I tried out paludis a few months ago. I do find Portage can be a bit slow. So I thought great - a "C++ version of Portage"!
However cave does do much stricter checking and has much more verbose output than emerge (way too much - like eix I guess). I really gave it my best shot to migrate over fully - but had to bale after a couple of weeks of trying to get one clean upgrade cycle. Speed wise - cave was slower than emerge (with no backtracking). So regular day-to-day installs would be quite slow (with the package tree being churned over multiple times). I'm sure I'll give it another go at some point... Maybe I was simply using it wrong... But boy it felt like it was for geeks who think "Portage is way too easy - give me something much harder"!! Robert On 2 February 2015 at 10:26, Michael Vetter <michael.vet...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > Hello list, > > 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? > > regards > > -- > Michael > > -- All the best, Robert
