Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> If you are installing a package by hand and wants to revert back to
> the previous state, best is to :
>
> - when you ./configure it, use the various --prefix directives (do a
> ./configure --help for information on that)
> - when you want to remove, make uninstall in the source dir (so don't
> remove it!)
> - if it does not have a remove, usually if you install it inside
> /home/${username}/whatever, then removing that is fine.
>
> Best thing though is to write an ebuild and then Portage will sandbox
> the build so it knows every file that has been installed.
>
> The package knows where to link to when it goes into the ./configure
> stage and won't act like windows, installing stuffs into registry or
> the like ... everything's nicely contained inside /lib and /share
> folders (except /etc files ...which you can safely ignore them there -
> those are just text files and you'll know where they are anyway if you
> intend to configure miro)

Thanks everyone.  I've never been open to manual compile/installation
but I can give it a try now.

- Grant