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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