Paludis
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Paludis is a package manager for use with Gentoo and related distributions. It is entirely independent of Portage, the package manager distributed with Gentoo. It is written in C++ and Bash, and offers several new features. Paludis is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
[edit] Features
Below is a partial list of differences between Paludis and Portage. See the Paludis website for a more complete list.
- A whole different configuration system, making it far easier to maintain multiple systems, some in chroots, with entirely separate configuration files.
- Multiple repository support.
- Simple per-(category, package, version, anything else) environment variable setting (e.g. CFLAGS).
- Licence filtering.
- Hook scripts, for running code after a certain action occurs.
- Ability to see a report of insecure, unused etc software package affecting the system, either manually or automatically after a sync.
- Ability to automatically reinstall scm (cvs, svn etc) package after a given interval.
- Slot, repository and USE flag dependencies.
- Support for -scm, -try versions.
- Extensive and easily extendable QA checks.
[edit] External links
- Paludis, the Other Package Mangler (Official Website)
- Planet Paludis
- Gentoo Linux Newsletter (Jan 22nd 2007) - contains related article
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