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Portage logo Portage

Portage is source-based package manager used by Gentoo and its descendants. It controls all process from fetching source through building it, installing into clean environment to "merging" with already installed software.

Pacman logo Pacman

Pacman was developed to be the package manager for Arch Linux, and is also used by KDE-focused Chakra Linux.
  • Portage Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26
  • Pacman Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-24

Portage

Categories
  • Developer Tools
  • Package Manager
  • Front End Package Manager
  • Containers As A Service
Website wiki.gentoo.org
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Pacman

Categories
  • Package Manager
  • Front End Package Manager
  • Developer Tools
  • Containers As A Service
Website archlinux.org
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Portage videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Portage and Pacman)

Portage

Pacman

Package Manager
38 38%
Package Manager
62% 62
Developer Tools
30 30%
Developer Tools
70% 70
Front End Package Manager
39 39%
Front End Package Manager
61% 61
Containers As A Service
100 100%
Containers As A Service
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Pacman seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Portage mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Portage yet. Tracking of Portage recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Pacman mentions (8)

  • How to build Software as a Service (SaaS) Notes application with mySQL/MariaDB and Apache in 300 lines of code
    Install Vely - you can use standard packaging tools such as apt, dnf, pacman or zypper. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
  • Podman 4.3 on Artix Linux: Fix initialization issues
    It is not so difficult to install Podman on Artix Linux, based on Arch Linux and systemd-free. It's because pacman brings core packages: podman and qemu-base of QEMU. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • Podman 4.3 on Artix Linux: Install
    Thanks to their package management system, pacman delivers Podman with a simple command line. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • Pacman Wrapper for C++/Node
    Pacman is a front-end to libalpm ((library for Arch Linux Package Management) which is written in C, so you should be able to use the library from C++. See https://archlinux.org/pacman/ for information and links to the source code. Source: about 2 years ago
  • (Part 3) I have a base Artix (OpenRC) TTY installed in this VM, whatever you tell me to do, I will gladly accept. As long as it's creative.
    Also, the previous commenter said to do so without the Arch Wiki, they said nothing about man pages, the git documentation, or the Pacman homepage at https://archlinux.org/pacman/. Source: about 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Portage and Pacman, you can also consider the following products

Conda - Binary package manager with support for environments.

pkgsrc - pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS

Yay - Yay is an AUR helper written in go, based on the design of yaourt, apacman and pacaur.

Docker - Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.

NixOS - 25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.

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