Howdy!

I just tried installing the Gentoo Pd-Extended Ebuild following these
instructions:

http://pd-overlay.sourceforge.net/setup.html

The Ebuild compiles cleanly, which is quite cool because looking at
the whole thing happening, you realize how much stuff is actually in
there!

However, I have some problems to report:

1. Is there any reason why JACK support is not included in the Ebuild?

I know I could hack it myself and include the USE flag, but I wonder
if it was a conscious choice or not...

2. I had to manually do the following:

cp
/usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src/pd-extended/v0-40/packages/linux_make/default.pdsettings
/home/derek/.pdsettings

I think this is a common problem with all Pd-Extended packages, that
the package manager doesn't do the final step of configuring Pd. Could
this be improved? In particular, this is exactly what "etc-update" on Gentoo would be
good for, since it allows you to compare and merge changes rather than
simply overwrite files.

3. Some libs/objects/abs still don't load, notably Gem, arduino,

list-abs, memento, pddp, pixeltango, rradical, jmmmp, pdp, pidip...
and I'm sure there are others. Path problem with the pdsettings perhaps?

4. I don't know how stable 0.40 is for me compared to 0.39. I still

get lots of unexpected crashes and such on both Linux and OSX. Is
there a 0.39 extended Ebuild kicking around anywhere?

As usual, help appreciated!

best, Derek