eggdrop is an irc bot if you dont know what a {bot,irc} is then its not for you ;)
Created attachment 1825 [details] net-irc/eggdrop/ directory its a tar.bz2 file ... just put it into /usr/portage/ and `tar -jxvf file`
really, installing an eggdrop system-wide is a "non-good" idea. I consider this "not good"
did you even look at the ebuild before you made that comment spider ?
Actually not, and thats why my comment still stands, to use eggdrop on a system wide install usually breaks things for users as eggdrop team has a tendency to always "forget" to be backwards compatible with their config files, and thus if a user has it running(as user ofc, wouldn't think less here) it will genereally break for them as sysadmins update to "latest & greatest" .
well, i took everything you mentioned into consideration when making this ebuild. (1) its not a system wide install (2) the ebuild displays information about renaming your config files so they dont get overwritten (3) i havent had a problem with upgrading my eggies in the past and using the same .conf file ... true they add new things and punt others, but its always been good to me (4) wtf is an 'ofc' ;)
hmm, seems i put in a small bug ... doesnt prevent the eggdrop from emerging correctly however in the SRC_URI var i have this line: ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/pub/eggdrop/source/0.9/${MY_P}.tar.gz it *should* be: ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/pub/eggdrop/source/${VERDIR}/${MY_P}.tar.gz i didnt notice this cause i had already fetched the 1.6.x sources ;)
*** Bug 4594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
okay, adding arbitary users in a ebuild is a disaster waiting to happen. forcing a user to export a flag before all emerge's is not good either, that will also break emerge -u installing system packages in /home breaks things on distributed servers (NFS export /home and watch what happens on the solaris box in the corner with the Gentoo build files) and is generally unclean, should a user want it they should be capable of installing it themselves. also, this is not something that belongs in portage tree as it opens up too many holes.
*** Bug 10336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***