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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] overlays
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:39:39
Message-Id: 4E1FFC7E.7090609@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] overlays by Thanasis
1 on 07/15/2011 11:20 AM Thanasis wrote the following:
2 > on 07/15/2011 10:54 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following:
3 >>
4 >> "eix-remote update" adds the contents of layman-supported overlays to the
5 >> eix database, then eix finds the packages i the normal way. Just run
6 >> eix-remote after eix-update.
7 >>
8 >
9 > I had done that, but had run eix-update afterwards, without knowing the
10 > consequences ...
11 > Why does eix-update cancel/delete the "eix-remote update" data?
12 > Shouldn't be better for eix-update to have a switch to choose whether we
13 > want to do that, and not being default?
14 >
15 > Thanks (Dale and Neil)
16 >
17 >
18 >
19
20 Found the answer:
21 set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true in /etc/eixrc (or ~/.eixrc)

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Re: [gentoo-user] overlays Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>