GENTOO EBUILDs

Due to a number of my favourite applications not being available in gentoo‘s portage system, I maintain my own set of ebuilds for these, which I make available to one and all via rsync.omz13.com (so you can easily get them into your local portage tree then emerge in the usual manner).Thus far, I have made the following ebuilds:

Of course, its nice when these packages get adoped into the official portage distribution (even if that takes many months and its based on somebody elses work instead of one of my ebuilds). Its also very disheartening when other packages aren’t picked up by the gentoo at all (don’t even get me started on the debate about why cvsnt has never made it into portage).Please note that when packages get into the official portage system, the ones that I maintain may be newer versions (as the gentoo devs have been known to be very slow at bumping some ebuilds).Also, I have recently got a Mac, so I am spending less time with gentoo on the desktop (but it is still used on my server). Therefore, the time I have available to work on these ebuilds is limited… so if you spot a package that is out of date, kindly let me know and I’ll try to bump it.

Please note that I am spending less time in gentoo since I became a machead and therefore wallow in BSD, objective-c, cocoa, and other such wonderfulness from that fruit seller in cupertino. (Also, much as I admire the enthusiasm of the gentoo devs, I find their arrogance (and not invented here syndrome) a bit annoying, especially when they don’t really have the talent to back it up.)