On Monday 20 Feb 2017 13:23:15 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:07:39 +0100, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > > Another option is to copy/symlink the specific package you want > > > > from the bar overlay to your local overlay and do not include the > > > > bar overlay in repos.conf. > > > > > > Sorry for being dense. Do you mean first add the overlay with > > > 'layman -a bar', then symlink the particular package to my local > > > overlay? How will I be updating this package in the future, if I do > > > not have the 'bar' overlay settings > > > in /etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf? > > > > > > I'm trying to understand the benefit of doing it as you suggest > > > above ... :-/ > > > > You could package.mask */*::bar and then only unmask the needed bits. > > That does seem a cleaner way of doing it. When I first did this, that > option wasn't available.
Thank you both, eventually I used Kai's suggestion, rather than having to mask a package at a time that entrance was pulling in as dependencies. Entrance works fine, other than the pam config it ships with which is not working at all on a non-gnome gentoo system. I need to brush up on pam, which I have been avoiding it seems forever and this may be the excuse I needed to do it. -- Regards, Mick
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