Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 December 2008 01:05:55 Harry Putnam wrote: > Is there no handy way to get an idea what you might encounter in the > different overlays? There doesn't seem to be any descriptions > anywhere. Didn't someone mention update-eix-remote recently? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 5 December 2008, 02:05, Harry Putnam wrote: > > If by "other repositories" you mean overlays, see this: > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml > > I see yes, but how do you tell what the member overlays are about? > Those with names like `Apache' `perl' `VMware' etc

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Other repositories

2008-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 4 December 2008, 23:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've seen it discussed here about how to access other repositories >> besides the default ones shown on the mirrors link at gentoo.org. >> >> But am completely drawing blanks now trying to reme