Porting portage to Ubuntu?

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:45:17 +0900
"John McCabe-Dansted" <gmatht at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can easily spend a day downloading and installing dependencies
> when I try to install stuff from source. I understand that porting
> portage could mean that installing software from source would require
> no more user intervention than synaptic, which would be really cool :)

Slightly more user intervention, if you count a few typed commands like

sudo apt-get build-dep <packagename-of-what-you-are-compiling>

For instance

sudo apt-get build-dep fluxbox && cd fluxbox-1.0rc2 && ./configure && make
&& sudo checkinstall

:-)

then there's 

sudo apt-get -b source <sourcepackage>

 -b, --compile, --build
              Compile source packages after  downloading  them.
Configuration Item: APT::Get::Compile.

( see "man apt-get" )

Also read

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html

Peter