On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Sep > 2008 00:38:48 +0100: > > People shouldn't be writing ebuilds to do that at all. They should > > be using a package manager provided tool that lets them keep track > > of ebuild-less packages in a way that integrates properly with > > everything else. > > I did mention package.provided, which is your PM provided tool...
If you consider package.provided to be your package manager provided tool, you need a much better package manager. Paludis has 'importare' for tracking (with full uninstall, upgrade, slotting and dependency handling capabilities) manually built packages. I assume Pkgcore has something similar. > As Donnie said in his post made while I was composing mine, it's the > "entry level ebuild hack that just gets people in the door and is the > reason a lot of people love Gentoo." Having to write an ebuild just to install something in a package manager friendly way and be able to uninstall it cleanly later is a defect, not a feature. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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