Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

[Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>]

on 07/08/2013 11:12 AM Daniel Pielmeier wrote the following:
> 2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
>> On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search
>>> locally *all* layman overlays.
>>> What commands and settings should I use?
>>
>> LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman/storage eix-remote -q update
>>
> 
> A good explaination on how to use eix-remote can be found here [1] and
> as usual in the man pages.
> 
> [1] http://klaig.blogspot.de/2013/04/how-to-search-super-quickly-in-all.html
> 

Following the above, I see that the way ti search for remote (not
locally installed overlays) is to use the -R option.
From eix (app-portage/eix-0.28.5) man page:

-R, --remote
Uses the value of EIX_REMOTE1 as cache file name.  Use this option if
you want to see what eix-remote produced.  You  can  make this option
the default by setting REMOTE_DEFAULT=1.

So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set
KEEP_VIRTUALS=true
REMOTE_DEFAULT=1

and now when doing a search I get results from all layman overlays
(either installed or not).

I am not sure whether the KEEP_VIRTUALS setting is needed though,
because the man page is *not* clear to me. Besides, in the bugs section
of the man page, it says:

The previous default KEEP_VIRTUALS=true used to confuse people. However,
with the new default, nobody will find out that this feature exists.  :(