From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198561381F3 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A44E9E0BBE; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D3D2E0A03 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id ez12so2363180wid.2 for ; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:36:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9Dkd6K8qEzHRAqbj+7U5HiOB0gKjEu+M5QgQ3Zqwa8Q=; b=yFPZdbl+C3oVk14+ZjmBEjX39Ftx0olc2RHht2g5YCYPuvHinEG6M3oRBtUpt9x0vB kuycM7p7HmRSUjeMWBd/QbbMSzlRWC9X+cF2wDZBT8JOyXX98sAADuVC2FtB80jMqcim jxwjWCa3vH5NfwFo+7fOhYz70kKZromOeek9S59I1vlfQF+LZ0MHHEGYPQiXE9hJw37F pzne9H23PGh7X9lAoiA7l7Wc+dLXC2aDw+o63EKfFbPX58isTElv9ewYONZUfJHCRMtG i4tLGZ/aU7fZ5CWbeUJ2CRkcJTytle0xR/z6JeqUpE8t9Gua/y3h+X2vo/6dhvbQYesG zAnw== X-Received: by 10.180.81.71 with SMTP id y7mr837674wix.63.1378636564948; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-126-85.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dq11sm9437738wid.3.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <522C522C.1030602@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:32:12 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deficient Gnome Window Frames References: <52288326.8050609@gmail.com> <522B40AD.1050301@marc-stuermer.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: d642fd7a-310b-4b80-b7fd-df95375b751f X-Archives-Hash: 2de2299ac410f028b325beac60f05c8a On 08/09/2013 12:09, gevisz wrote: > 2013/9/7 Marc Stürmer > > > Am 06.09.2013 21:47, schrieb Paul Hartman: > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, gevisz > wrote: > > But I have not found MATE in portage... > > > I see there is a mate overlay available in layman > > > layman -a mate > > > Thank you for the hint. > > I still have to learn how to use overlays... emerge layman [follow elog instructions on what to do with make.conf layman -L [pick the overlay you want layman -a > > ... because I still need an omegaT (that is absent from portage) > and Skype (that is masked). Put ebuilds for them in your local overlay. It's not the same thing as layman - local overlay is just a directory with ebuilds you maintain yourself, tell portage where it is and it treats those ebuilds like they are in the main tree. it's fully documented in the portage docs > Is it safe to use packages from overlays? Depends. Is it safe to install software? An overlay is just ebuilds that fetches and builds software. may it's useful, maybe it's malware, maybe it's buggy, maybe it's not. If you real question is "Is there some official QA applied to overlays?" the answer is no. You either need to trust the overlay maintainer, or do the QA yourself. > Is there any ways to cleanly uninstall packages installed from overlays? Same as any other package: emerge -C To remove an installed overlay: layman -d That just removes a tree of ebuilds. Portage tells you what is now out of sync with the next "emerge -uND world" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com