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On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:51, Joshua Banks wrote:
> Good question.. :)
>
> I was kindof wondering the same thing. What if I want to install something
> in tar.gz format that isn't in the portage tree? Will gentoo still let us
> compile source manually via ./configure, make, make install commands or
> not? Or are the commands different?

tar.gz, tar.bz2, cpio, etc, makes no difference.
When working outside of the package management system, Gentoo is just plain 
old GNU/Linux, just like every other distro. Well, apart from Gentoo being a 
kick ass distro :)

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Mike Williams
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