Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:22:27AM +0100, Penguin Lover Bo ?rsted Andresen squawked:
> Portage currently does not store any information about where a package was 
> installed from. Therefore the best you can do is manually inspect the output 
> of `eix --installed-overlay`. It will show all packages where the version you 
> have installed exists in any overlay (and you can see if they exist in the 
> tree too). That, however, only implies that they might have been installed 
> from that overlay..

Oh, that is too bad. 

I think I can live with having extra overlays living on my testing
box. 

Just a thought though: would the following be advisable/work?

Could I just delete those relevant overlays (either layman -d or
perhaps commenting them out in the relevant parts of the make.confs)
and see if emerge complains about non-existant packages in my world
file or unsatisfiable dependency? IIRC, I shouldn't have any packages
installed from overlays for more recent versions than portage offered;
I only install them from overlays when the ebuilds are not in portage
at all. 

W
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