From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4aRU-0000iA-5Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:02:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 178311C0E9 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248FE1C0AB for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.44]) by qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id R2Ln1g0030x6nqcAC2SGXy; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:26:16 +0000 Received: from ajax.firstbooks ([68.42.184.39]) by omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id R2SF1g0010rR5no8Y2SFZn; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:26:16 +0000 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:26:06 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: No LibX11 Libtool Archive Installed Message-Id: <20110329102606.17dcca0b.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20110327221640.ce25fdb4.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4d900636.425bdf0a.0fce.6ade@mx.google.com> <20110328212404.fc6fc658.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d4fcaae52ccbb5176c11920b73c3f90a On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > > Question: Why don't you create (or modify the gentoo/overlay tree > version, if you can find one) an ebuild which does the installation using > portage? That way it still tracks it, and provided you keep reasonable > dependencies in the ebuild, it'll track them too. > Now that's a very good idea. I will have to start doing this. I've been using my own build scripts from a long time back, but this is definitely a better way to go. Frank Peters