Portage replacement – choice made easy :-)

Steven,

Can it be true? My dreams for finding ${portage replacement} came true? It is so easy?

Now, while I do find a rationale in your post, let me disagree.

1. Right, so you’re sitting bored near you computer, and looking around for portage replacement because it doesn’t do what you want. Why? Did it stop installing packages and syncing nightly? I’d really like to know what is it that you want to do, and portage doesn’t allow you to.
2. Right away you’re starting to look for alternatives. Why? Is everything so terrible, that cannot be fixed? I can believe that this software might not be written to handle workload it now has. But still, portage 3 maybe will? A point to think, at least for me.
3. Your choice of the alternative is by their Doc Language, developer’s nickname and language of choice? Come on, you can do better. You say portage doesn’t do what you want (say, doesn’t have a feature you want), but you neglect feature comparison? Or, at least, checking that either of alternatives has the feature(s) you’re looking for?
4. And if both of them have that feature, does it matter, really, which one you choose? At least either will be better that portage, right?

So, while I’m not really happy with portage sometimes, I’m not really in a search for replacement just yet. Maybe I’m too conservative, but that’s just me.

Paludis and pkgcore teams – right on! I really like your both work (while maybe doubling the effort), I believe it is the very nature of free software – that we all can choose the best software for ourselves.

Ciaran – I don’t know why someones’ nick should even matter at all. I don’t know what nicks most Free/Open Software developers have, but I still use it and I’m happy anyways. Besides, I know you don’t care such background noise.

Just my 5 cents.