Package management for your home

Hello,
I'm working (as a user) on a network which is built on a kind of elderly OpenSuse. Since some packages I need/want are missing, some are outdated I've compiled and installed some in my $home. Though it works, it's a hassle to maintain.
I''m looking for some kind of distribution like system which allows installing and managing packages in your $home. When I install a package it checks if the dependencies are there and compiles/installs the necessary packages.
Is there something like that out there?
(it's not Arch related, but I use Arch on my home desktop, that's why I ask here)

I had been asking myself the very same question about half a year ago and tried several options, three of which I remember:
– HAI (Home Arch Install), which promised/promises to be awesome, but I could not get it to work at the time.
– Gentoo Prefix, a way to install a full Gentoo Linux directory structure into your home (read: lots of diskspace, lots of compilation time needed), except for the kernel. You can start the Gentoo environment by a start_gentoo_prefix (or something like that) script and install applications with portage/emerge.
→ This is what I ended up doing.
– Rootless Gobolinux is supposed to do the same thing for Gobolinux. I could not get it to work, though.
EDIT: I just learned about Toast, which appears to be pretty awesome. I am going to try it out soon.
Last edited by Franek (2013-08-16 11:56:48)

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