Re: [gentoo-user] Package management for non-ebuild software

[Andrew Gaffney]

There's a program called checkinstall. It doesn't look like its in 
portage, but it will build a RPM, Slackware .tgz, or DEB file and 
install it. I used it quite often when I ran Slackware 8.1.

http://checkinstall.izto.org

Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
As I just installed Gentoo the first time 3 days ago (I was using Linux From 
Scratch for 2.5 years now but I got sick of tracking all dependencies when 
keeping the major packages up to date) I'm not sure if that's just a stupid 
question but skimming through some documents and searching on the web didn't 
answer my question.

Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of software 
installed with ./configure && make && make install? I used install-log with 
LFS, but if there's a chance to use a different system I would be glad to 
hear about it.
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