Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by an package.use file in

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread reader
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Alexander Meinke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little confused .. the question (that you quoted in your reply) asks how to set use flags separately for layman overlay. So your answer doesn't appear to make sense... but maybe I'm missing something here. Hi, the subject is How to set package.use for layman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:32:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Alexander Meinke wrote: So I think you wont be able to set USE-Flags specially for layman packages. That appears to be correct, as there is no mention of overlay-specific USE settings anywhere in the layman docs. So, it seems that one still has only the same two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:01:12 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: There is no way to set use flags separately for packages in overlays. That's not always true. If the overlay provides a version that is not in portage, like a cat/pkg- for a CVS/SVN ebuild, then a version-specific entry in package.use

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread reader
I've just started to use layman tools and wondered if setting such things as /etc/portage/package.use would still be done in that same place and same way? deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: assuming you've got your make.conf setup appropriately, the overlay will take precisidence.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 May 2008, at 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It would also seem that /etc/portage/package.use would be global and include layman... is that right? Yes. So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Meinke
So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by an package.use file in /usr/portage/layman I think. Regards, acm. signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread reader
Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by an package.use file in