[gentoo-user] Re: How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world?

2008-12-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:30:56 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There are quite a few overlays that offer helpful ebuilds. kde-testing for example is one of them. However, I don't use it (and others) because I can't find a way of stopping the hordes of chaos that appear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do you deal with overlays and emerge -u world?

2008-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:53:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What I do when I want only one or two packages from an overlay is to add that overlay with layman, but do not add it to make.conf. Then I symlink the package directories I do want from the layman overlay into my local overlay.