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> I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds |
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> for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow |
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> the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo |
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> way? |
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It's the general unix way of doing things, so sure it fits into gentoo also. |
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Ebuilds are not really necessary unless you believe a lot of other folks |
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will be using the same package. |
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That said, having written some ebuilds lately, I can tell you for the most |
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part the process is pretty easy. Start with an ebuild for a package that is |
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similar to what you're going to install, make the various changes for the |
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package (the gentoo doc for the ebuilds is your best friend here), and drop |
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it into your overlay. If you want to release it, it goes easily into |
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bugs.gentoo.org. |
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If you don't want to do the ebuild yourself, and you believe at some point |
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in the future someone else might get one into portage, you can always use |
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the ./configure script to install to /usr/local - it would still be |
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available yet allows for future emerging should it get added. |
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