powerman-overlay VS portage

Compare powerman-overlay vs portage and see what are their differences.

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powerman-overlay portage
2 1
12 8
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5.0 9.5
28 days ago 3 days ago
Shell Shell
- MIT License
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powerman-overlay

Posts with mentions or reviews of powerman-overlay. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-20.
  • How to install Gentoo directly with Runit.
    1 project | /r/Gentoo | 13 Mar 2022
    AFAIK, There's nothing preventing someone from building a stage-3 snapshot for pure runit init. powerman-overlay appears to have some ebuilds that would support it. It would likely benefit from a custom profile. I have never seen such a snapshot yet, though.
  • Runit on gentoo
    4 projects | /r/Gentoo | 20 Nov 2021

portage

Posts with mentions or reviews of portage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • how can i install java 1.7? on gentoo
    1 project | /r/Gentoo | 28 Jan 2023
    If you need JDK-19 for some reason (new language features etc.) you can find it in my overlay (amd64/x64 only) at: https://github.com/hhoffstaette/portage/tree/master/dev-java/openjdk/ (or -bin)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing powerman-overlay and portage you can also consider the following projects:

void-runit - runit init scripts for Void

overlay - sam's Gentoo overlay

runit-rc - Artix system initialization and shutdown for runit (mirror)

abendbrot - Desktop oriented overlay for various ebuilds and the occasional gamer

torbrowser-overlay - Gentoo overlay for Tor Browser related ebuilds

viperML-overlay - Gentoo’s portage overlay with packages for personal use.

portage-overlay - Extra ebuilds for Gentoo systems, mostly packages fixed to work with musl

cutefishos-overlay - CutefishOS is a Linux Desktop Environment, I would like port to Gentoo Linux

gentoo-monero - Monero packages for Gentoo Linux

gentoo-git-squash - A script to create a SquashFS snapshot of a git repo

void-packages - The Void source packages collection