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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:41 AM

Ok - before I start my Gentoo install , I just wanna know
Is it possible to install packages (binaries or source) that aren't Gentoo
specific ie would I be able to use rpm packages or would that screw the
system up?

regards

bN

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:41 AM

bigNuts wrote:

> Ok - before I start my Gentoo install , I just wanna know
> Is it possible to install packages (binaries or source) that aren't Gentoo
> specific ie would I be able to use rpm packages or would that screw the
> system up?

Source - definitly. Cleanest ist to install to /usr/local, portage doesn't
touch that.

You can get rpm as a gentoo package. Installing rpm packages *should not*
mess up your system, but I *could*. Best way here, too, is to --relocate
to /usr/local

Anno.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:41 AM

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:16:09 +0100, "Anno v. Heimburg"
<anno.usenet@vonheimburg.de> wrote:

>bigNuts wrote:
>
>> Ok - before I start my Gentoo install , I just wanna know
>> Is it possible to install packages (binaries or source) that aren't Gentoo
>> specific ie would I be able to use rpm packages or would that screw the
>> system up?
>
>Source - definitly. Cleanest ist to install to /usr/local, portage doesn't
>touch that.
>
>You can get rpm as a gentoo package. Installing rpm packages *should not*
>mess up your system, but I *could*. Best way here, too, is to --relocate
>to /usr/local
>
>Anno.

Gentoo likes to install binary packages to /opt. That's where I've
been installing programs that do not have an ebuild (there aren't many
of them).

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:42 AM

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:12:45 -0500, Jason wrote:

> Gentoo likes to install binary packages to /opt. That's where I've
> been installing programs that do not have an ebuild (there aren't many
> of them).

[FIX]
if possible, that is you learn how to make an ebuild, it is best to have
it as an ebuild and this is of no concern if it is a -bin .rpm or source
e.g. openoffice-bin ati-drivers but true it should be placed in /opt in
the sense of having it in the right place

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:42 AM

Jason wrote:

> Gentoo likes to install binary packages to /opt.

Yeah, but since that's where a binary ebuild would be going, I wouldn't
place manually installed stuff there - just to keep portage- and
manually-installed things separate.

Anno.

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