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From: tastytea <tastytea+gentoo@tastytea.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:00:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200423220050.0392ed5f@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F18EE77-69E0-443B-8509-87664B878CE7@antarean.org>

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On 2020-04-23T21:39+0200
"J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> wrote:

> On 23 April 2020 21:35:22 CEST, Caveman Al Toraboran
> <toraboracaveman@protonmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I would prefer that portage prioritize gentoo's version rather
> >> than the overlay's version, unless specified otherwise (eg.
> >> sys-boot/grub::poly-c) when installing.
> >
> >didn't try it, but i guess you'll get the effect
> >you want by:
> >
> >    * setting priority of your layman repo below -1000.
> >    * setting priority of the gentoo repo above
> >      50 (i think default for layman).
> >
> >more info:
> >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild_repository#Priorities
>
> I got this working by only setting the priority of the gentoo repo to
> 999.

Another option is to mask¹ all packages from the overlay with
*/*::poly-c and only unmask the packages you want to install from it.

¹ <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-23 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-23 19:09 [gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay? Matt Connell (Gmail)
2020-04-23 19:35 ` Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-04-23 19:39   ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-23 20:00     ` tastytea [this message]
2020-04-23 20:14       ` J. Roeleveld
2020-04-23 20:33   ` Matt Connell (Gmail)

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