Every now and then I run into a software project mentioned somewhere such as freshmeat.net, or the Linux Journal that I want to give a try and find that it’s no where to be found in the portage tree. One specific example is a project called GnoCHM, a CHM reader built using GTK2. The problem I’ve run into, which I’ve seen more than once with portage and Gentoo, is the Python module used to read the CHM files is also not available in the portage tree.
That all being said, the only grip I have about Gentoo, and the portage tree, is it seems like the portage tree is a little more sparse than one would expect. I’m not complaining too much, because all of the libraries and headers are available for me to build the application manually.
LLG –long Live Gentoo!–