Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > > You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays added to
>> > > the eix database.
>> >
>> > I think he wants to know what overlay a given ebuild is in without
>> > installing the overlay first
>> >
>> > eix wwon't show the contents of not-installed overlays
>>
>> As it's panto season now - Oh Yes It Will!
>>
>> eix-update reads installed overlays but eix-remote downloads a list of
>> the contents of all layman overlays, giving exactly what Mark wants.
>>
>> I hadn't even heard of the trauma overlay, let alone installed it, yet
>> eix found the ebuild for me.
>>
>
> well well whaddaya know
>
> it works !
>

Humm...so if I would have simply done exactly what Neil suggested I
would have seen it without actually installing the overlay? Cool.

- Mark