Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 31 December 2009 00:40:24 Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
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
> 
> Is this documented anywhere?  I would like to see how this works,
> without doing it just in case I mess up.  lol
> 
> Dale


You can't cock it up. If you have eix and layman working (almost everyone here 
has that):

eix-remote -q update

eix <something>

tada!!


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