> > Yeah, but why are you trying to use ebuild to
> > install the package in the
> > first place?  Did emerge choke on it?  Do you need
> > custom configure script
> > options?  Having that background will help to figure
> > out how to complete the
> > task it seems you're trying to do...
> 
> Being a newbie, I assumed it was better to use ebuild
> since there are pre and post install function to be
> run and then updating the list of packages installed
> on the system say i wanna run qpkg -l cyrus-sasl ..
> etc  instead of just doing make install and then
> search for where the files went.
> 
> If I am going about doing something round about way,
> please suggest alternative.

What's wrong with "emerge cyrus-sasl"?


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