I don't know if the other gentoo users on this list are aware of this, but someone who goes by the name of nevermind has created a proaudio portage overlay. You can find out about it at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-427211.html , or download a live svn snapshot directly from http://svnweb.tuxfamily.org/dl.php?repname=proaudio+%28ckpp%29&path=%2F&rev=0&isdir=1 . Overall it is very useful, containing both packages that are missing from the main portage tree and more recent versions of existing packages. There are several very nice apps I had not heard of before, such as aeolus, the pipe organ emulator. One thing I have found I have needed to do has been to manually download some of the tarballs to /usr/portage/distfiles, and then to delete some of the digests and manifests and rebuild them (using "ebuild packagename-1.2.3 manifest digest") in order to generate new checksums. In one case (I think it was the vst sdk) I had to roll my own tarball in place of the one one of the ebuilds was unable to download. There were one or two other ebuild tweaks I had to do as well. So not problem free, but very useful nonetheless. Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears...
