Re: [gentoo-user] Install software using ebuilds on other systems

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 12/08/2013 04:11 PM, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have one question.
>
> There is a nice project called gentoo-prefix that allows to install
> Gentoo in other systems locally. It is really greate, but if one needs
> to easily install only a little number of packages it can be quite
> boring to compile the whole base system to be able to do so.
>
> Hence my question, is there a way to use portage to install software per
> user on a different system using its system compiler etc.? Without
> dependency checking of course ) I want just use an ebuild, so I do not
> need to configure, make and install stuff by hand.
>

This isn't going to work for non-trivial packages, but,

  emerge --nodeps foo

might fly if everything is present where the build system expects it to be.

If I were you I would suck it up and build the whole @system, it will
save time in the long run.