1on1(remove)@email.com (Joseph) wrote:

> I don't normally have any problem installing tarballs; but, I am being
> cautious about doing it in Gentoo.

Write an ebuild for it It's not that complicated. And if you think
others might also want to have this software, too, you can submit it,
and it will be in portage soon.

> I assume that it will install fine, but I don't want to end up installing
> things without a good method of file tracking, so I can remove it cleanly
> if/when the time comes.

> How do the experienced people here go about installing/tracking their
> tarball installs?

I use stow. I configure a tarballs named foo with --prefix=/usr/local/
stow/foo, compile and install there, and from /usr/local/stow I call
"stow foo". This creates symlinks too all files in /usr/local/stow/
foo/bin in the /usr/local/bin directory, and so on, so it appears to
be installed directly in /usr/local.
When I want to removete package, I remove the links with "stow --
delete foo", and remove the foo directory.

Alex
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