Apparently, though unproven, at 19:54 on Sunday 28 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly:
> On Sunday 28 November 2010 17:01:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On more business matters, have the ebuilds in enlightenment overlay > > successfully installed for you? And has the category for EFL's media libs > > settled down? This business of media-libs vs x11-libs caused me huge > > amounts of grief about a year ago.... > > Yes, I remember the media-libs change. I thought it was more recent than > that - doesn't time fly! I must have been lucky because I > uninstalled/reinstalled affected packages and all was fine with my E17. > Bear in mind though that I have not installed all modules - I tend to > emerge only what I use/need regularly. > > This weekend I removed efl and added the enlightenment overlay. Then > checked that the following packages were keyworded as -9999, which were > (re)installed without any problems:[1] > > dev-libs/ecore > dev-libs/e_dbus > dev-libs/eet > dev-libs/eina > dev-libs/embryo > dev-libs/efreet > media-libs/edje > media-libs/ethumb > media-libs/evas > x11-wm/enlightenment > media-libs/emotion > dev-libs/eeze I did the same, it seems to work well, including the nice surprise of being able to use composite with an OpenGL backend, *and* to be able to configure windows so they don;t bounce all over the place when getting focus > [1] In the process I had to uninstall some efl packages to avoid > conflicts. > > I see that there are loads more packages in enlightenment overlay than what > I have installed, but I am not sure if I need them (please let me know if > you thing I'm missing out something basic). In time I will be trying more > packages out no doubt. EFL, e17 and the modules you use seem to be all that most folk will use. I used to install everything in svn that would build successfully btu I never used most of that stuff. I do like winlist and itask. But the rest seems to have bitrot - some packages still have etk and ewl in DEPEND (like epdf). I can't think of any killer must-have apps beyond the basics. > I also tried for a few days to switch away from -9999 and into the betas > offered by the portage tree - then things got terribly messy and decided to > stick with svn for now. Same here. The overlay just is not ready for those yet > So I think that the enlightenment overlay is usable, but as with all SVN > things ... YMMV. ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
