Re: scala gentoo ebuild

> Latest version of scala on mainstream gentoo portage is 2.7.7. I tried
> to contact with scala's gentoo maintainer, but he didn't answered to me.
> I've created overlays for latest scala versions (2.9.0RC2 latest) -
> https://github.com/whiter4bbit/overlays. It's a binary overlays.
> Is there gentoo users ? What overlays do you use for scala?
>

Glad to hear that there is better Gentoo support for Scala now :-)

To be honest I've never used the Gentoo ebuilds anyway. I've installed
Scala manually like most of the Java stuff, too. Simply because it's
hard to keep the system up-to-date with ebuilds for projects which are
under active development. And I must admit that I've never had the
motivation to deal with portage when all I needed was just a simple JAR
for an API or something like this - in particular if there are other
dependencies you would have to satisfy.

But of course I will give your overlay a try!

Btw.: Is it a lot of work to create a Gentoo ebuild for software
packages without that much dependencies?

Cheers
Marco