on 07/15/2011 11:20 AM Thanasis wrote the following: > on 07/15/2011 10:54 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: >> >> "eix-remote update" adds the contents of layman-supported overlays to the >> eix database, then eix finds the packages i the normal way. Just run >> eix-remote after eix-update. >> > > I had done that, but had run eix-update afterwards, without knowing the > consequences ... > Why does eix-update cancel/delete the "eix-remote update" data? > Shouldn't be better for eix-update to have a switch to choose whether we > want to do that, and not being default? > > Thanks (Dale and Neil) > > >
Found the answer: set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true in /etc/eixrc (or ~/.eixrc)
