From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB241381F4 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7300721C038; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B124FE05ED for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0MER00CC0Q8GB290@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:43:28 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,246,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="202901256" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:43:28 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id qB9EhRPa000615 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:43:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F70D5C8 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:43:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:43:30 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages & eix-test-obsolete To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20121209101052.00b50b22@digimed.co.uk> In-reply-to: <20121209101052.00b50b22@digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.91-2-g6b9dc83 Message-id: <1355064210.25845.2@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 961d0c4b-06b0-4f76-901b-640e3158db27 X-Archives-Hash: a0e4118b390cf283da59b3fcddaca855 On 12/09/2012 11:10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:13:16 -0800, Grant wrote: > > > This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a > way to > > install only certain packages from a layman overlay and > > use eix-test-obsolete? > > I don't add such overlays to make conf. Instead, I symlink > directories for > the packages I want into my local overlay. > I did that, too. But it has become more difficult now. E.g. the 'progress' overlay uses new EAPIs and new eclasses which even pull in incompatible packages, e.g. blas. I haven't found a way to handle that by symlinks of similar methods. Helmut.