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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays - a question of principle
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:55
Message-Id: 14714693.sOAo0bmHYs@kailua
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Overlays - a question of principle by Helmut Jarausch
1 Am Montag 24 März 2014, 11:33:22 schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > several overlays have their own (additional) eclasses and
5 > important packages like eselect.
6 >
7 > What happens (and does it harm) if I use
8 > different combinations of overlays at different times?
9 >
10 > Many thanks for a "mini-tutorial" or reference to those,
11 > Helmut
12
13 Have a look at metadata/layout.conf in the overlays and especially the
14 "masters" entry there.
15
16 It's documented in man 5 portage
17
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19 Andreas K. Huettel
20 Gentoo Linux developer
21 kde, council