On Mon, January 26, 2009 21:17, Grant wrote: > Writing an ebuild is best, but sometimes you just want to give a > program a try without writing an ebuild (like everyone else running > Linux does) and a scruft script enables you to do that without making > a mess of your system.
Not to be picky, it's just an idea but in that case, isn't it way easier to just ./configure --prefix=/some/dir/inside/yourhome or edit a makefile? -- Jesús Guerrero