On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:39, Vano D wrote:
> Probably we could add a feature to emerge so one would "emerge
> --custom some_source" and Portage would untar into the work dir the
> file /usr/portate/distfiles/some_source-2.9.tar.gz (or other
> extensions etc..) and would carry out a simple skel.ebuild (or we
> could have 2 or 3 other variations if the first one or two fail to
> compile). It would then enter into the Portage database as
> "custom.some_source-2.9" or with some other prefix so Portage knows
> it is a "special ebuild" (as in there is no ebuild.)
>
> It doesn't look too hard to implement such a feature. What do you
> people think?

One obvious pitfall is dependencies.

Tool to make ebuilds easily can be found from portage, but those could 
be improved a lot.

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