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
when doing "emerge -u world". Is there really no way to somehow deal
with this? Right now the only thing I can do is add the overlay, copy
the ebuild I want to my local overlay and then remove the overlay
again. Any alternatives to this approach?
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.
That way the overlay is kept up to date by layman, but only the
packages I choose to link to are actually available.
Hmm. So you add every overlay by hand in make.conf? I only have this:
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
