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>> I think what we really need is a better way |
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>> to install only certain packages from an overlay. |
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> This is against the idea of an overlay: If you want only cerain packages |
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> copy them into your local overlay and do not add the whole overlay |
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> to portage. (But you might get troubles if you do not use eclasses |
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> or other ebuilds from the overlay which might contain corresponding |
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> patches). |
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Surely you can see the value in finding an ebuild for a package you like |
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that isn't in portage, adding the overlay associated with that ebuild via |
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layman, somehow specifying that you only want that package from the |
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overlay, and running 'layman -S' to stay on top of version bumps. If I |
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understand your suggestion correctly, it would involve manually checking |
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for version bumps and recopying them into the local overlay. That doesn't |
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seem very Gentoo. |
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- Grant |