> But once in while, you want a package that > hasn't make it into ebuild yet what to do? If you download the package > and install it by hand will it mess up your portage?
It should not mess up your portage if you install things by hand. But the "nice to the community" thing to do would be to create an ebuild for the package, and submit it. It's quite easy, portage takes care of most common tasks automatically. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml --Diego -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
