On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:25:53 +0000 (UTC) James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello List, > > Does 'Layman -L' yield a comprehensive list or does > it just poll from a subset of the different Overlay > from a select number of sites? layman -L lists all overlays the gentoo overlay infrastructure knows about. Obviously it can't list overlays it has never been informed of. Somewhere in the layman config there's an option to not list overlays a machine can't use (eg git overlays where you don't have a git client), I prefer to just leave it at the default and scan for red, green and yellow asterisks when listing overlays > Does such a list exist that references (most) all > Overlay repositories and the Overlay ebuilds therein? > > Are there sites that are known not to trust? > > If 2 different repositories have different > (hacked ebuild) then where do you get > information as to which one you should use? > Sure testing them both is warranted, but maybe > there is a site where these Overlays are close > to becoming stable enough for inclusion in portage, > maybe a last stage clearing site or such? No, such a thing would be impossible to maintains and subject to much subjective whinging > Do some sites have standards and other sites > let anyone put up a development ebuild? I suppose so, just as different developers have different standards and different policies on what patches they will accept > 'layman -S' > Are the listings automatically refreshed or > do you (should you) issue one master command to sync (update) > all of the repositories or sync per each repository? layman -S updates all of your local repositories at once > Just looking for some feedback on these non > official ebuilds, in a general sense. I have had > very different experiences with Overlays and was > wondering if I have missed some wisdom along the > way..? Like everything else in life, people are involved and you have to work on reputation and decide what you like. Sort of like choosing wives - you can get lots of recommendations out there, all meaningless :-) > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Listing_and_Adding_Overlays > Best reference on the subject? It's a simple enough topic. Last time I read that page it seemed to cover all reasonable bases, as did the official gentoo doc -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
