Making an RPM Distribution play nicely with ./configure && make && make install packages

[Tim Wunder]

On 3/5/2004 11:03 AM, I believe that Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:19:35 +1100
> James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I use Redhat Fedora Core 1. I have installed apt4rpm and done the usual 
>>apt-get upgrade etc. So once you get to that stage you then have to 
>>compile from source to get 'the latest'.
>>
>>Typically I also install packages that I don't bother to role into an 
>>rpm but they are required by other components I want to install via rpm 
>>/ apt-get.
>>
>>How do you tell apt-get / rpm to either ignore that it can't see the 
>>package in it's database or update the rpm database with the package 
>>despite it wasn't installed via rpm?
> 
> 
> gentoo ... Gentoo ... GENTOO
> 

I'm fairly ignorant on other package management systems used by non-rpm 
distros, slackware, gentoo, debian. I'm fairly familiar with how rpm 
works and believe apt to be similar, a database tracks what's installed. 
Is gentoo different? Slackware?
Can I just install a program from source and gentoo will not try to 
"update" it with an older package?
Say I decide to install KDE 3.2.1 from source. configure, make, and make 
install. I then do an 'emerge kde' (or whatever it is...) Will gentoo 
try to install kde 3.2.0 because that's what it thinks is the latest 
version? How's that work?

Thanks,
Tim