A Penguin in the Orchard

CheckInstall

This looks promising.

CLI Magic: CheckInstall - OSNews.com
“The magic in CheckInstall is that it learns everything your new app or package will add to your system, and then creates a binary installable package geared to the package manager you use, whether that be Slackware, RPM, or Debian. Optionally, it will also install the newly created package. But whether you install then or later, when the time comes that you want to remove the package from your system, all you need to do is run the appropriate command for your package manager.”

This might be a good way to start using source again for installs, especially if the resulting packages are tracked in the rpm database.