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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:53:46
Message-Id: gj5mhu$j7v$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:30:56 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >
4 >> There are quite a few overlays that offer helpful ebuilds. kde-testing
5 >> for example is one of them. However, I don't use it (and others)
6 >> because I can't find a way of stopping the hordes of chaos that appear
7 >> when doing "emerge -u world". Is there really no way to somehow deal
8 >> with this? Right now the only thing I can do is add the overlay, copy
9 >> the ebuild I want to my local overlay and then remove the overlay
10 >> again. Any alternatives to this approach?
11 >
12 > What I do when I want only one or two packages from an overlay is to add
13 > that overlay with layman, but do not add it to make.conf. Then I symlink
14 > the package directories I do want from the layman overlay into my local
15 > overlay.
16 >
17 > That way the overlay is kept up to date by layman, but only the
18 > packages I choose to link to are actually available.
19
20 Hmm. So you add every overlay by hand in make.conf? I only have this:
21
22 source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>