On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > > You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays added to >> > > the eix database. >> > >> > I think he wants to know what overlay a given ebuild is in without >> > installing the overlay first >> > >> > eix wwon't show the contents of not-installed overlays >> >> As it's panto season now - Oh Yes It Will! >> >> eix-update reads installed overlays but eix-remote downloads a list of >> the contents of all layman overlays, giving exactly what Mark wants. >> >> I hadn't even heard of the trauma overlay, let alone installed it, yet >> eix found the ebuild for me. >> > > well well whaddaya know > > it works ! >
Humm...so if I would have simply done exactly what Neil suggested I would have seen it without actually installing the overlay? Cool. - Mark
