Frank Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:29:00 -0400
> Drake Donahue <donahue95@...> wrote:
> 
>>> perhaps you like to go with a prefixed portage:
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
>>>
>> >From http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/ebuilds/
>>
>> Make a folder where you will store your own ebuilds 
>>
>> mkdir -p /usr/local/portage
>>
>> and set that folder in /etc/make.conf: 
>>
>> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
>>
>> The folder structure in your overlay folder should be the same as found
>> in /usr/portage. 
>>
> 
> As I understand things, overlays could not be the answer because they
> are intended only for packages outside of the standard portage tree.
> I want to install some standard packages into an alternative location.
> 
> But Prefix appears promising.  I'll have to investigate.
> 
> Can Prefix replace Portage entirely?  That is, can Prefix be used
> to maintain an ordinary Gentoo system in place of Portage?
> 
no

> Since I would only want to relocate a relatively small number of packages,
> another solution I am considering is to emerge with the option
> --buildpkgonly to create a binary package.  This package can then be
> unpacked to the desired location.  Also, sed can be used to change all
> instances of /usr/lib64, /usr/include, etc.,  in the *.la and *.pc
> files to the appropriate directory.  The file package.provided would
> also have to updated to inform portage that the package is actually
> available.  This may seem rather tedious, but a shell script could
> automate the process.  It may not be elegant, but it would work.
> 
> Frank Peters
>