From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/0 Description of problem: RPM is a wonderful tool, but many users do not want to wait for Red Hat package maintainers to come up with packages. Furthermore, Red Hat could benefit from additional help with building packages and tracking upstream software. Gentoo's portage system is a wonderful means to do this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Not applicable 2. 3. Actual Results: Not applicable Expected Results: Not applicable Additional info: What I'm thinking here is the ability to autobuild a new RPM whenever upstream sources change. See Gentoo's portage system for how this works. Portage also allows for multiple versions of the same software to be built on the same system, build sandboxing, and other handy features. RPM is wonderfully powerful, and it seems to me that portage is a natural next step in expanding this power. Portage's config file merger is also a nice touch. The idea here is to give users more freedom to keep up to date, and RH packagers more power in maintaining software. Just a suggestion. Gentoo is very young yet, and it as a system is rough around the edges, but portage is a great thing. I can imagine RH+portage to be a really killer system.
I'm not averse to integrating gentoo, but cannot undertake the work myself.