Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 18:56 on Saturday 27 November 2010, Mick did 
opine thusly:

> On Saturday 27 November 2010 07:37:48 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 08:39 on Saturday 27 November 2010, Hung
> > Dang
> >
> > did opine thusly:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to get E17 on my computer using this guide
> > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/E17. I have also added source
> > > /var/lib/layman/make.conf to make.conf and update PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" to
> > > /var/lib/layman/make.conf. After that I try to emerge elightenment and
> > > can only get x11-wm/enlightenment-1.0.7. When I try to log in to
> > > enlightenment I can only get E16.
> > >
> > > Any idea?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Hung
> >
> > You didn't unmask/keyword anything, so you are getting the window manager
> > in portage, which is e16.
> >
> > To get e17 you need to get it from an overlay. The only overlay that
> > actually works right now is
> >
> > http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/packaging/gentoo
> >
> > vapier's overlay was out of date, is now being updated and is in a state
> > of flux, i.e. constantly breaking and changing.
> >
> > I've never heard of the overlay on the gentoo-wiki page.
> >
> > To use the e17 window manager you *must* install the -9999 efl libs from
> > svn. The e17 ebuild does not cater for the -beta2 versions.
>
> I'm not sure that efl overlay is still required to run E17.  I just today
> moved from efl to the enlightenment overlay (Vapier's).  I had to keyword
> all necessary E17 packages as -9999 ** to be able to install stuff, or the
> E16 packages were being drawn in.  The enlightenment overlay seems to be a
> couple of months behind efl judging by the bugs that I thought were
> already resolved.
>
> Some packages (e.g. epdf) will not build because dependencies are missing
> and what not, but the following packages were able to emerge without
> problems and give (me) a functioning desktop:

[snip]

I see new ebuilds have been added. This is good, the target is moving.

What this now means is that until e17-1.0.0 is released and in the tree, no-
one can tell you how to build the stuff, it's changing too rapidly :-)

> PS.  Alan, are you saying that all the new beta packages are for e16 only?

No, they are for e17. There is no code in e17 that has anything to do with e16 
at all.

What I meant was that according to the last time I looked in the tree, the 
only ebuild for the window manager was in efl overlay. So to get the window 
manager (not just EFL) you have to use the -9999 ebuild, not the betas.

But that has changed.


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