Paludis is a package management library that works with Gentoo style ebuilds, together with a simple console client. It is entirely independent of Portage. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
World is now handled by the environment, not individual repositories. The FAQ "Upgrades" section has migration instructions. All ruby demos are now installed with the executable bit set, and a symlink for playman is installed in $(bindir). importare now has an --install-under option. Two new hook phases were added, install_task_execute_pre and install_task_execute_post, to avoid issues with continue-on-failure. Hooks in the auto/ directory can now specify in which phase or phases they are to be run.

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