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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] This is what I get for trying...
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:23:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151121092324.5d399bcc@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564DE7EF.3050001@verizon.net>

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On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:17:03 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:

> Naturally, the instructions on the gentoo wiki FAIL....

when not read or followed correctly.

Hell, you're not even reading the right page, even though it does contain
the information you need. You don't want to write your own ebuilds, you
want to put an existing one in an overlay.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay

Note that these instructions work best when read from start to finish and
then followed from start to finish.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Is there another word for synonym?

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-21  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-19 15:17 [gentoo-user] This is what I get for trying Alan Grimes
2015-11-19 16:01 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-11-19 22:11 ` Jc García
2015-11-21  1:22 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-11-21  8:27   ` J. Roeleveld
2015-11-21  9:23 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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