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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:29:53
Message-Id: 201011281728.01533.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 11:07 on Sunday 28 November 2010, Mick did
2 opine thusly:
3
4 > > This doesn't look right. layman has never installed overlays in that
5 > > location for me.
6 >
7 > Hmm ... it does for me! o_O
8 >
9 > $ ls -la /var/lib/layman/enlightenment/
10 > total 16
11 > drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 25 Nov 27 10:33 .
12 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8 Nov 27 10:33 ..
13 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Nov 27 10:33 app-admin
14 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Nov 27 10:33 app-misc
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16
17 Well now, that's just fscking brain dead. Putting data files into areas of the
18 file system where executables were there first. Tut, tut, tsk, tsk.
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20 Now that I think about it, I recall layman doing something like this the first
21 time I used it. It drives me batty, along with portage putting the tree in
22 /usr/portage so now layman.cfg has this on all my machines
23
24 storage : /var/portage/local/layman
25
26 and I *always* change $PORTDIR to be /var/portage
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29 I'd forgotten *why* I always do this. Thanks for the reminder.
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32 --
33 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>