Re: [gentoo-soc] Project proposal - quick package installer

[Ravi Pinjala]

Richard Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:39, Ravi Pinjala <ravi@××××××××.net> wrote:
>> One of my occasional frustrations with Gentoo is that it's more
>> difficult than it needs to be to install a package from a tarball, and
>> still have its files tracked by a package manager. The simplest thing
>> I've found to do is to create an ebuild in my personal overlay and use
>> that, but not everybody wants/needs to learn how to write ebuilds.
>
> Have a look at importare, one of the paludis clients.
>
> http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/managing-unpackaged-packages-or-whats-this-importare-thing/
> http://paludis.pioto.org/clients/importare.html

...wow, that's exactly what I had in mind. I should really keep up with
Paludis more.

Would creating something like this for portage be a reasonable GSoC
project, or should I look for something else?

--Ravi