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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:30:56 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> There are quite a few overlays that offer helpful ebuilds. kde-testing |
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> for example is one of them. However, I don't use it (and others) |
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> because I can't find a way of stopping the hordes of chaos that appear |
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> when doing "emerge -u world". Is there really no way to somehow deal |
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> with this? Right now the only thing I can do is add the overlay, copy |
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> the ebuild I want to my local overlay and then remove the overlay |
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> again. Any alternatives to this approach? |
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What I do when I want only one or two packages from an overlay is to add |
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that overlay with layman, but do not add it to make.conf. Then I symlink |
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the package directories I do want from the layman overlay into my local |
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overlay. |
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That way the overlay is kept up to date by layman, but only the |
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packages I choose to link to are actually available. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If God can't help you, how about Mr. Coffee? |
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