On 08/09/2013 12:09, gevisz wrote: > 2013/9/7 Marc Stürmer <m...@marc-stuermer.de <mailto:m...@marc-stuermer.de>> > > Am 06.09.2013 21:47, schrieb Paul Hartman: > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com > <mailto:gev...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > But I have not found MATE in portage... > > > I see there is a mate overlay available in layman > > > layman -a mate > > > Thank you for the hint. > > I still have to learn how to use overlays...
emerge layman [follow elog instructions on what to do with make.conf layman -L [pick the overlay you want layman -a <overlay_you_want> > > ... because I still need an omegaT (that is absent from portage) > and Skype (that is masked). Put ebuilds for them in your local overlay. It's not the same thing as layman - local overlay is just a directory with ebuilds you maintain yourself, tell portage where it is and it treats those ebuilds like they are in the main tree. it's fully documented in the portage docs > Is it safe to use packages from overlays? Depends. Is it safe to install software? An overlay is just ebuilds that fetches and builds software. may it's useful, maybe it's malware, maybe it's buggy, maybe it's not. If you real question is "Is there some official QA applied to overlays?" the answer is no. You either need to trust the overlay maintainer, or do the QA yourself. > Is there any ways to cleanly uninstall packages installed from overlays? Same as any other package: emerge -C To remove an installed overlay: layman -d <overlay_name> That just removes a tree of ebuilds. Portage tells you what is now out of sync with the next "emerge -uND world" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
