> I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds > for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow > the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo > way?
It's the general unix way of doing things, so sure it fits into gentoo also. Ebuilds are not really necessary unless you believe a lot of other folks will be using the same package. That said, having written some ebuilds lately, I can tell you for the most part the process is pretty easy. Start with an ebuild for a package that is similar to what you're going to install, make the various changes for the package (the gentoo doc for the ebuilds is your best friend here), and drop it into your overlay. If you want to release it, it goes easily into bugs.gentoo.org. If you don't want to do the ebuild yourself, and you believe at some point in the future someone else might get one into portage, you can always use the ./configure script to install to /usr/local - it would still be available yet allows for future emerging should it get added. -- [email protected] mailing list
