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| From: | Richard Brown <rbrown@×××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-soc@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-soc] Project proposal - quick package installer | ||
| Date: | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:40:31 | ||
| Message-Id: | df1735a20903170540o710423d4j2b98ee62432a41d3@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-soc] Project proposal - quick package installer by Ravi Pinjala |
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| 1 | On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:39, Ravi Pinjala <ravi@××××××××.net> wrote: |
| 2 | > One of my occasional frustrations with Gentoo is that it's more |
| 3 | > difficult than it needs to be to install a package from a tarball, and |
| 4 | > still have its files tracked by a package manager. The simplest thing |
| 5 | > I've found to do is to create an ebuild in my personal overlay and use |
| 6 | > that, but not everybody wants/needs to learn how to write ebuilds. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Have a look at importare, one of the paludis clients. |
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| 10 | http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/managing-unpackaged-packages-or-whats-this-importare-thing/ |
| 11 | http://paludis.pioto.org/clients/importare.html |
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| 13 | Richard Brown |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-soc] Project proposal - quick package installer | Ravi Pinjala <ravi@××××××××.net> |