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From: deface <deface@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set package.use for layman overlays
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:11:21
Message-Id: 4AD9231B-DCE3-4DF3-B39D-62483A80F77B@uberpenguin.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to set package.use for layman overlays by reader@newsguy.com
1 assuming you've got your make.conf setup appropriately, the overlay
2 will take precisidence.
3
4 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local"
5 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/storage/repos/uberpenguin/trunk"
6 source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
7
8 deface
9
10 On May 17, 2008, at 6:26 AM, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
11
12 > I've just started to use layman tools and wondered if setting such
13 > things as /etc/portage/package.use would still be done in that same
14 > place and same way?
15 >
16 > I want to install an overlay of emacs-cvs but with different use flags
17 >
18 > I'm following along with the instruction at:
19 > http://www.enigmacurry.com/2007/05/24/multi-tty-emacs-on-gentoo-and-ubuntu/
20 >
21 > On my laptop I run Gentoo Linux. Getting the latest version of Emacs
22 > on Gentoo was a breeze! :
23 >
24 > * Setup Layman
25 > * Add the emacs overlay: sudo layman -a emacs
26 > * Add the following USE flags for app-editors/emacs-cvs: sudo
27 > flagedit app-editors/emacs-cvs X Xaw3d alsa gif gzip-el jpeg
28 > lesstif png sound spell tiff toolkit-scroll-bars xpm -gtk
29 > -hesiod -motif -source.
30 > * GTK support is explicitly turned off as it causes problems with
31 > multi-TTY. This is no biggie for me as I always have
32 > (menu-bar-mode -1) and (tool-bar-mode -1) set.
33 > * Emerge: sudo emerge emacs-cvs -va
34 > * Tell the system to use the new emacs: sudo eselect emacs set
35 > emacs-23-multi-tty
36 >
37 >
38 > To get emacs-multitty set up. It isn't really clear what role layman
39 > plays in those instructions since the final command is
40 > emerge emacs-cvs
41 >
42 > Or will that automatically use the layman overlays.
43 >
44 > Or maybe the author assumes I don't already have emacs installed from
45 > /usr/portage.
46 >
47 > I realize this is a little offhanded since its asking advice about 2nd
48 > party instructions. But I have no experience whatever with layman or
49 > using overlays at all. So thought maybe better to ask here than
50 > directly to the author of those instructions.
51 >
52 > --
53 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
54 >
55
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