Re: [gentoo-user] subclipse???

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 31 December 2009 00:40:24 Dale wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> Is this documented anywhere?  I would like to see how this works,
>> without doing it just in case I mess up.  lol
>>
>> Dale
>
>
> You can't cock it up. If you have eix and layman working (almost everyone here
> has that):
>
> eix-remote -q update
>
> eix <something>
>
> tada!!

I was like Dale which is why I didn't try it when Neil suggested it
this morning. eix-remote --help says it downloads eix-caches which to
someone who doesn't program this stuff sounded like something I
couldn't fix myself.

- Mark