Everything you install on Gentoo is generally done with an ebuild
because that lets portage track the dependencies and also keeps track
of the versions so they are easily upgraded in the future. This is the
best way to do things for most software. With something like
Communigate however, you aren't going to benefit much by writing an
ebuild since its not gonna be in portage and your not compiling
anything anyhow. I would however suggest that if Communigate has any
dependencies that you emerge them through Portage rather than build
them by hand so they can be easily (automatically) updated when you do
an emerge -u world.<br>
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-Mike<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Swanson</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:rearden@atlantisvalley.com">rearden@atlantisvalley.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about<br>the above question.&nbsp;&nbsp;I've read on here many places about people writing<br>their own ebuilds to install software.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the pieces of software I
<br>run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets<br>installed by a script, not by compiling source code.&nbsp;&nbsp;Is this a problem<br>for Gentoo?&nbsp;&nbsp;Or is this particular software outside the knowledge of<br>Portage, and as such, not checked for dependencies and such?&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks for
<br>any help you can give me.<br><br>On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us<br>Ctrl+F4 to close a tab.&nbsp;&nbsp;Does anyone know how I can avoid that?&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks.<br><br>Mike Swanson<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">
gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>________________________________<br>Michael E. Crute<br>Software Developer<br>SoftGroup Development Corporation<br><br>Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
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