[gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

[Hans de Hartog]

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating some exotic packages in the portage tree
and found out that they're almost 2 years old, don't compile or
crash immediately.
When I go to their home page or forums, I see that lots of new
versions have been released.

What to do about this? I'm not going back to the early 90's to
play around with tarballs, ./configure, make && make install and
after a few months end up in the hell of shared library
dependencies and systems being polluted beyond repair.

After all, that's why I've choosen Gentoo in the first place.

Should I
  - kindly ask somebody to do something about it?
  - try to make an ebuild from a tarball?
  - something else?

Thanks for your advice!
Hans.
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