Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays - mask everything except a specific package?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:23:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>    I'm looking for a ways to:
>>
>> 1) List all contents of a specific overlay including version numbers.
>
> Run eix-remote update to add all layman overlays to eix's database, then
> you caqn use it to search specific overlays.
>
>> 2) Mask everything in an overlay except exactly what I actually want
>> installed.
>
> The way I do this is to layman -a the overlay but not put it in
> make.conf. Then I symlink only the ebuilds I want to my local overlay. By
> symlinking instead of copying, I automatically get updates to that
> package.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>

Interesting idea Neil. Thanks.

- Mark