2013/9/7 Marc Stürmer <m...@marc-stuermer.de>
> Am 06.09.2013 21:47, schrieb Paul Hartman:
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> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> But I have not found MATE in portage...
>>>
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>> I see there is a mate overlay available in layman
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> layman -a mate
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Thank you for the hint.
I still have to learn how to use overlays...
... because I still need an omegaT (that is absent from portage)
and Skype (that is masked).
Is it safe to use packages from overlays?
Is there any ways to cleanly uninstall packages installed from overlays?
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> GNOME 2.X is been dead since a few years. They went to develop that ugly
> beast they call GNOME 3.
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> MATE is the proven and working fork of GNOME 2.X. If you want GNOME 2.X,
> then you should take a look at it indeed.
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