On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:42 -0500 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > How to make eix search an overlay too. > > The manpage for layman says: > > You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on > http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge the package and > run update-eix-remote update. > > But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update > or 'man eix' although I do find eix-remote and eix-layman.
eix-update adds overlays to the eix-database. If you use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync, you don't have to run eix-update afterwards. > [...]
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