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One of my occasional frustrations with Gentoo is that it's more |
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difficult than it needs to be to install a package from a tarball, and |
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still have its files tracked by a package manager. The simplest thing |
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I've found to do is to create an ebuild in my personal overlay and use |
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that, but not everybody wants/needs to learn how to write ebuilds. |
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My project idea is a tool to allow users to quickly install packages |
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from tarballs, or other sources, and have the installed files tracked by |
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their package manager. Ideally, it should be no more difficult than the |
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usual "./configure; make; make install" sequence that we're all used to. |
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One obvious issue with this is dependencies; if packages installed using |
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this method can be used as dependencies of other packages, it makes it a |
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lot easier for users to do strange things to their systems. My initial |
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instinct is to say that packages installed by this method will be |
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excluded from dependency calculations somehow, but I also think the |
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option should be there somewhere. |
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Questions/comments/suggestions? Is this actually a terrible idea, for |
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reasons I haven't thought of yet? :) |
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--Ravi |