is a set of "small and fast portage helper tools written in C". The idea was to adapt theses tools for paludis. In short we have two patches: * The first one add support for overlays, (portage users can use this patched version) * The second one make the q tools to work with paludis truc

Well, no surprise, paludis -i portage-utils should do it This package also come with two hooks and one configuration file: /usr/share/paludis/hooks/common/qlop-hook.bash /usr/share/paludis/hooks/common/q-reinitialize.bash /etc/paludis/hooks/config/q-reinitialize.conf This hook regenerate the the cache files portage-utils uses (.ebuild.x and .metadata.x). And, unless you disable it in the configuration file, it can regenerate the metadata/cache for the overlay with the write_cache key defined and different from /var/empty A short script palsearch is also included in the package. Use this script to search package on their name or their description see for a short introduction.

Basicaly you can do the same with the patched and the vanilla version of portage-utils, it's just that the later will not work with paludis, and even less with your overlays... Here is some of the main differences: q --ls-overlays Overlay(s) : Name : einit location : /var/paludis/repositories/einit metadata : /var/cache/paludis/metadata/einit Name : initng location : /var/paludis/repositories/initng metadata : /var/cache/paludis/metadata/initng Name : paludis-overlay location : /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-overlay metadata : /var/cache/paludis/metadata/paludis-overlay Name : paludis-extras-scm location : /home/sam/prog/gentoo/paludis-extras/overlay-scm metadata : /var/cache/paludis/metadata/paludis-extras-scm Name : local location : /var/paludis/repositories/local metadata : /var/cache/paludis/metadata/local Name : gentoo location : /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo metadata : /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/metadata/cache Name : paludis-extras location : /var/paludis/repositories/paludis-extras metadata : /var/cache/paludis/metadata/paludis-extras You will also notice an --overlay <arg> option has been added to various tools( qlop,qgrep,quse and qsearch), this option generally improves speed by performing the given action on only the the requested overlay (<arg>). qatom now supports overlays too, and scm,live,cvs and svn version: qatom sys-apps/paludis-scm::paludis-extras sys-apps paludis scm paludis-extras qatom -c sys-apps/paludis-scm::paludis-extras sys-apps/paludis-22.0::paludis-extras sys-apps/paludis-scm::paludis-extras > sys-apps/paludis-22.0::paludis-extras qlop has been modified a lot to be as reliable as possible. you'll find in the changelog examples on how to use it. Changelog qlop-hook.bash