From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRY0c-0008K5-3A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:24:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CA4EE03BE; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm2.telefonica.net (impaqm2.telefonica.net [213.4.149.62]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A10E03BE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost5.adm.correo ([10.20.102.126]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 8LHn1b00H2jdgqJ3MLQbd2; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:24:35 +0100 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost5.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 8LQa1b0023XLmEe1lLQaq3; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:24:35 +0100 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" Received: from 192.168.0.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user i92guboj) by jesgue.homelinux.org with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:24:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901261217kd7c7425h52fdd0a988489842@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10901260841w61b08bb5q6d7519dee4cc758e@mail.gmail.com> <20090126214856.577a7fc6@coercion> <49bf44f10901260935y7e46b94te283d854a89269a5@mail.gmail.com> <497E0108.80605@googlemail.com> <49bf44f10901261217kd7c7425h52fdd0a988489842@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:24:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Guerrero?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.16 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 08539600-4cc8-42f2-833d-ba649e2cfda4 X-Archives-Hash: 64c792fa122965089c528b7206b4df9b On Mon, January 26, 2009 21:17, Grant wrote: > Writing an ebuild is best, but sometimes you just want to give a > program a try without writing an ebuild (like everyone else running > Linux does) and a scruft script enables you to do that without making > a mess of your system. Not to be picky, it's just an idea but in that case, isn't it way easier = to just ./configure --prefix=3D/some/dir/inside/yourhome or edit a makefile? --=20 Jes=FAs Guerrero