Re: [gentoo-user] Searching for Overlays

2015-08-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/08/2015 03:27, James wrote: OK so yes I know overlays in the wild can be disastrous. Reading the devmanual while parsing through various ebuilds both portage and in the wild, does make for some interesting reading:: ymmv. I'm not sure my overlay (kung_fu) is complete. 'layman -L'

Re: [gentoo-user] Searching for Overlays

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Wya
On 6 August 2015 at 09:50, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/08/2015 03:27, James wrote: OK so yes I know overlays in the wild can be disastrous. Reading the devmanual while parsing through various ebuilds both portage and in the wild, does make for some interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] Searching for Overlays

2015-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:51:06 +0100, Bob Wya wrote: I happen to have an overlay in Layman and I have contacted Ycarus (who runs the zugaina site) when one of my packages wasn't sync'd with Layman. Apparently his site pulls in the overlays on an automated basis (cron job style). It is pretty

[gentoo-user] Searching for Overlays

2015-08-05 Thread James
OK so yes I know overlays in the wild can be disastrous. Reading the devmanual while parsing through various ebuilds both portage and in the wild, does make for some interesting reading:: ymmv. I'm not sure my overlay (kung_fu) is complete. 'layman -L' lists reasonably qualified overlay sites;