Frequently Asked Questions
This document describes some of the more commonly encountered problems, issues and things that aren't bugs but might look like they are. Pestering anyone about these is liable to get you hurt.
This document also describes some things that are not bugs or missing functionality. Pestering anyone about these is liable to get you hurt a lot.
General Questions
- I have an Unanswered Question
- Why not fix Portage?
- Why C++?
- But C++ is ...
- Contributing
- Known compiler issues
- What term should I use to mean "to install a package using Paludis"?
How do I ...?
- Use
ccache
- Use
distcc
- Specify default options
- Remove unneeded packages
- Unmask a Package
- Sync from CVS
- Sync from a Gentoo tree snapshot
- Recover VDB
Operation
- Paludis does not update DEPENDs of already installed packages
- Updating world misses things
- Get package information for a bug report
- What do those fancy arrows when merging things mean?
Stricter than Portage
- Merging Weird Stuff
- Packages Failing
src_test
- Sandbox Violations when
ROOT
is Set - Repository Blacklists
- Paludis wants to downgrade Qt or KDE
Undesirable Misfunctionality
- wget Resume Support
- Build Resume / Skip First Support
- No Automatic Niceness Support
- No Ask Support
- Restoring XTerm Titles
Things Paludis Does Differently
- No
--tree
Equivalent - No
FEATURES
Equivalent - No
--emptytree
Equivalent or No--newuse
Equivalent - ELOG Equivalent
- No Automatic Directory Creation
- Revdep-rebuild Equivalent
- No Layman (and how Playman is different)
- No
package.provided
file