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On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:07:39 +0100, Kai Krakow wrote: |
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> > > Another option is to copy/symlink the specific package you want |
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> > > from the bar overlay to your local overlay and do not include the |
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> > > bar overlay in repos.conf. |
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> > Sorry for being dense. Do you mean first add the overlay with |
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> > 'layman -a bar', then symlink the particular package to my local |
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> > overlay? How will I be updating this package in the future, if I do |
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> > not have the 'bar' overlay settings |
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> > in /etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf? |
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> > I'm trying to understand the benefit of doing it as you suggest |
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> > above ... :-/ |
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> You could package.mask */*::bar and then only unmask the needed bits. |
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That does seem a cleaner way of doing it. When I first did this, that |
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option wasn't available. |
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