Talk:Portage (software)

message: funtoo should be mentioned here as gentoos successor. 71.82.88.40 (talk) 01:49, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this is correct. Funtoo is kind of a derivate, but mainly using the straight gentoo ebuilds repository as a basis (see ports), adding some overlays and their own bits. However, the main work is still done in gentoo. Derivates pick up the work and add their own stuff. This doesn't qualify for the term 'successor' afais. Hasufell (talk) 09:24, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I second that funtoo should be mentioned here.  reference number 5, daniel robbins is the original author of portage, and he's lead dev of funtoo.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.129.12.35 (talk) 08:21, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  funtoo 

message: if porthole is not mentioned elsewhere in the article it should be as the new gui for portage package management. 71.82.88.40 (talk) 01:49, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  porthole 

message: "... allow users to safely ... uninstall software from a system and automatically handle dependencies." 
is not true. The biggest portage problem is still unsolved -- see Gentoo Handbook :
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap3
Portage will not check if the package you want to remove is required by another package.
"will not check" here means "does not even know how to check". 
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.188.85.60 (talk) 10:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, more specifically 'emerge' doesn't check for reverse dependencies but Portage contains the information needed to calculate them. There are separate utilities available (revdep-rebuild and udept) to handle reverse dependencies. --Bk0 (Talk) 18:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

text: revdep-rebuild is a for fixing problems that arise this way, not for handling dependincies properly -- see
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Control_revdep-rebuild
Quote : "It was written to rebuild reverse dependencies on a Gentoo system that may have been broken due to unmerging or upgrading packages. While it is useful, it does have some bugs.". There is a number of user-written scripts for handling dependencies, but they all have their own limitations.
PS I see users crying on forums.gentoo about accidentally deleted packages very often. :)
 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.188.85.60 (talk) 20:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   portage problems 

message: Mention perhaps various ports of portage?  I understand there exists one for Slackware and Mac OS X. -- Maru Dubshinki 00:34 Sunday, April 17 2005
* And Cygwin .  This article does need more "portage on other distros" section.  -- AlexLibman 00:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Porting Portage 

message: Since kuroo is no longer maintained, please remove the references from this article (or at least note that its dead). I can't do that obviously due to my english, thx 138.246.7.56 (talk) 15:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  kuroo 

message: Himerge as portage GUI is dead and has been removed from portage 3 years ago. I am not sure if it makes sense to still mention it. It is not relevant anymore. -- Hasufell (talk) 02:06, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Himerge 

message: eix should definitely be mentioned in this article.  It caches the portage so you can search it basically instantaneously and it presents it in a much better way and with nice colors and allows for nice searches, etc.  Instead of emerge --sync and eix-update, you just run eix-sync. 173.69.45.221 (talk) 06:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  eix 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Portage (software). Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20141231094259/http://wiki.gentoo.org:80/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Features to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Features
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20141231095024/http://wiki.gentoo.org:80/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 06:00, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified