Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

Willie Wong wrote:
> Hi list, 
>
>   Is there a way of finding out whether I have packages installed on
>   my system from a given overlay? I am asking because I noticed that
>   some of the packages I've installed (such as GoogleEarth) from
>   overlays had been incorporated into the official portage. I would
>   like to 'unsubscribe' to overlays that doesn't have packages that I
>   need. 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Willie
>   

You may want to reconsider this.  I have googleearth installed here and
it doesn't get along well with portage and it's digest checking.  Of
course, it doesn't like my dial-up either.  LOL

>From what I understand Google doesn't allow Gentoo to mirror the souce
tarball.  After you install it and sync later on, if Google has changed
something, you get a digest error.  It will delete the tarball from
distfiles too.  I'm on dial-up and that sort of ticks me off,

The way I got around it is to manually delete it from my world file. 
That way it doesn't check the digest.  Some guru may have a better way
to do this but this is what I have ran into with googleearth.  May want
to check farther before you run into the same thing I did.

Hope that helps, and makes sense.  Sometimes I don't.  LOL

Dale

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