Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 5 December 2008, 02:05, Harry Putnam wrote: If by other repositories you mean overlays, see this: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml I see yes, but how do you tell what the member overlays are about? Those with names like `Apache' `perl' `VMware' etc are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 December 2008 01:05:55 Harry Putnam wrote: Is there no handy way to get an idea what you might encounter in the different overlays? There doesn't seem to be any descriptions anywhere. Didn't someone mention update-eix-remote recently? -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 4 December 2008, 23:16, Harry Putnam wrote: I've seen it discussed here about how to access other repositories besides the default ones shown on the mirrors link at gentoo.org. But am completely drawing blanks now trying to remember how I