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| From: | Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories | ||
| Date: | Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:44:53 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200812051349.26062.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories by Harry Putnam |
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| 1 | On Friday 5 December 2008, 02:05, Harry Putnam wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > > If by "other repositories" you mean overlays, see this: |
| 4 | > > |
| 5 | > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > I see yes, but how do you tell what the member overlays are about? |
| 8 | > Those with names like `Apache' `perl' `VMware' etc are obvious enough |
| 9 | > but what about things like `Sunrise Gentoo User Overlay' or the ones |
| 10 | > just named after developers? |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > layman -L just shows the source address. |
| 13 | > |
| 14 | > http://overlays.gentoo.org/ |
| 15 | > |
| 16 | > Shows little more |
| 17 | > |
| 18 | > Is there no handy way to get an idea what you might encounter in the |
| 19 | > different overlays? There doesn't seem to be any descriptions |
| 20 | > anywhere. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | http://overlays.gentoo.org/ |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Select the overlay from the list on the left, then choose "browse |
| 25 | source", and you can get an idea of what there's inside. For the sunrise |
| 26 | overlay, here is the list you're probably looking for: |
| 27 | |
| 28 | http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise |