Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Necessity of installer and complete documentation.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:26:04
Message-Id: CAGfcS_n_R_zJkQ5ce68wQYU6rCN4EoYXkW-7k9Ehnvq+LnsGVw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Necessity of installer and complete documentation. by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:40:19 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >
4 >>
5 >> Another option to consider is creating your own overlay with some
6 >> meta-packages in it. Then when you do a new install the first thing
7 >> you do is pull in that overlay and you get those meta-packages along
8 >> with whatever else you want to override. Come to think of it, I might
9 >> just go do that...
10 >
11 > That's a good idea, but creating, and modifying, sets is just so easy!
12 >
13
14 No argument, but a meta-ebuild is really just a couple of extra lines.
15 Plus the overhead of the repository. But, it also comes with a
16 syncing mechanism.
17
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19 Rich