on Wednesday 03/21/2007 Nelson, David J([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > > Sent: 21 March 2007 10:30
 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in
 > > portage?
 > > 
 > > nope, this completely ignores the overlays -- it does have [1] and [2]
 > > at the end each followed by the name of an overlay directory, but it
 > > never gets any ebuilds from either of them.
 > > 
 > 
 > I would check overlay setup and also try `emerge 
 > =exact-group/exact-package-2.18.whatever` i.e. specify the specific ebuild 
 > you wish to emerge? I have used overlays before for xgl and for init-ng but 
 > both were a few months ago so please feel free to correct me if I am missing 
 > something.

Seems most of the packages are masked so I have to find each one and
put them in package.keywords -- yuck.


 > 
 > PS (to all):
 > 1) Please trim crap out of messages you send to this list: e.g. that junk at 
 > the end of previous emails
 > 2) Please don't top post as it makes threads harder to follow
 > 3) Please don't use HTML email if you can help it
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > 
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 > djn
 > 
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