2008/2/11, ciol <ciol13@gmail.com>:

Hi, what are the differences between pacman and pacman-g2?

pacman-g2 is a fork of pacman maintained by Frugalware developers. * libalpm renamed to libpacman, and with time became more different in some places, so I believe they are not very compatible now, also I guess config files are incompatible as well * it uses libftp instead of libdownload (although they patch it anyway, so I don't see the benefit they've claimed in their README in past) * claims to provide a stable API * has bindings for some languages * supports subpackages * Frugalware uses sha1sums and bzipped packages IIRC * many _F* extensions used in Frugalware's PKGBUILDs. Frugalware's point of view is described in pacman-g2's README Also read its history - it's interesting. The current version is pretty unbiased, the only incorrect thing I've found during a quick look is:

Some features that pacman-g2 has over pacman: (September 2007) 4) Localized manpages. We do have localized manpages.

AFAIR at least 3 small distributions use(d) pacman, and IIRC one use{s,d} pacman-g2. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)