On Thursday 12 November 2009 04:17:47 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using layman to keep KDE 3.5 installed and have a question. I run > eix-sync to sync my tree. From what I see, it appears it also syncs the > layman part as well. Does it? This is what I see: > > [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) > Reading 100% > [1] "kde-sunset" /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset (cache: > parse|ebuild*#metadata-flat#assign) > Reading 100% > > I just want to make sure I am seeing this correctly.
No, eix-sync does an emerge --sync and updates the local cache for portage and all overlays trees. To sync the overlays you need this: layman -S && eix-sync > While I am here, I plan to get rid of all the layman stuff when KDE 4 is > ready enough for me to use. Do I just run layman -d all and unmerge > layman? Does that get the job done? Leave layman installed, it's useful. You also need it if you want the sunrise stuff. Run KDE4 and 3.5 side by side for a bit till you are happy. They use different directories in ~ so they don't clash: kde-3.5 ~/.kde kde-4 ~/.kde4 then unmerge all of kde-3.5, verify with depclean, then delete the overlay -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
