I think I saw something in the app-arch directory called rpm2tgz.  Would
that help?

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:55 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Because there are plenty of programs not available through portage as 
> > far as I know.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Which you can just compile normally, if there is source available, which 
> there usually is given that most FOSS prgrams only provide RPMs as an 
> afterthought. If there isn't (but really only an RPM, because the 
> program is not FOSS), then you can take the advice to force install, or 
> you can check bugzilla to see if there is an ebuild, adapt an ebuild for 
> a similarly-structured program to work with this program, or find a FOSS 
> alternative.
> 
> Holly
> 
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