bpkg is a utility that tries to simplify the
process of trying out new programs from source.
For most packages, this can be as simple as "bpkg
<url or tarball>". bpkg will download,
extract, configure, compile, install, generate a
package in your system's native format, and
finally integrate that package into your system's
packaging system so that you can remove it
cleanly. It has auto-detection for Arch Linux,
Slackware, Red Hat, Gentoo, and SuSE (though not
all packaging back-ends are complete). bpkg is not
intended as a replacement for normal packaging
utilities.
