Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

[Thanasis]

on 07/08/2013 09:39 PM Martin Vaeth wrote the following:
> Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
>>
>> So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set
>> KEEP_VIRTUALS=true
>> REMOTE_DEFAULT=1
>
> With the current default setting of separate databases for the
> local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and
> for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix),
> KEEP_VIRTUALS=true makes no sense:
>
> The purpose of KEEP_VIRTUALS=true was to update the local
> cache data without changing the remote data with eix-update
> (if both are in the same file).
>
> However, especially if you set REMOTE_DEFAULT you should call
> eix-remote add1
> after every eix-sync so that your local eix cache is
> copied into the remote eix cache
> (see the manpage how to do this automatically with eix-sync).
>


Thanks, Martin.
So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should
remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option
when I want to search the remote cache and no option for searching the
local (installed) overlays and portage, is that correct?