How many pub. overlays added? /What's in your pers. overlay?

node_one · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 165

I searched and I did not find a previous poll about this. Anyway, I am curious what the results will be. I just want to compare my usage with everyone else's.

EDIT: Just to clarify the question slightly, If you copy ebuilds from other overlays into your own personal overlay to use, I think that is a different aspect of overlay usage. In that case, exclude those overlays from your count. It may be interesting to run a poll with that question as well.

EDIT: Title change, again. Poll ends in 6 months, but I cannot fit that in the title.

Veldrin · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject:

Well - For me it depends on the system. I maintain 2 Gentoo Servers and my personal Workstation.

While the Servers are clean - no overlays installed - I have pulled in 4 overlays on my workstation. But I am not sure which of those I really use.

sunrise overlay: There are various small packages I need
enlightenmant overlay: for testinstalling enlightenment 17 - but I don't really use it
zen-overlay: needed for some (zen-)kernel testing, but I stick with gentoo sources for the time being
desktop-effects: I cannot remember why it is installed - possibly because I intended to test compiz

I had kdesvn-portage installed for a few days to test kde-4.1, but I cannot use it ATM, as I still need some packages, that rely on qt-4.3, rather on qt-4.4 - and I am not that unpatient.

I voted 4, although it might be a bit high...

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yngwin · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject:

I use 3 at the moment: berkano, kdesvn-portage and sunrise.
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fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

After having the second inconsitency in dependencies between 2 overlays I decided to use just the ebuilds needed in my private overlay. So you could say I use 1 overlay or 8 overlays, depending on the point of view.

Maybe this makes it clear why I am not a fan of overlays. :roll:

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myceliv · Apprentice Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 178

I selected one, because really there's only one that I use full time, although 1.3 would probably be about right. About every three to six weeks I pull in an overlay to try something I think I need, but without fail I've either found a better solution within portage repo or decided it just wasn't so great an application period.

Alabattai · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 9 Location: Warsaw

Just kdesvn-portage here.
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d2_racing · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

I will use it in a near futur, but I'm not friendly with this parallel portage tree

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6780

Giving a number is really hard. I think most people want just a few ebuilds from some overlays, and so I guess, for many people it actually does not make sense to pull in entire overlays (of course, there are some exceptions like kde for which a whole overlay is really reasonable). Usually, I just copy those few ebuilds which I want into my personal overlays and then erase the rest of the overlay; so I guess the correct number should be 0.

It would be nice if there would be a more standardized way to fetch/update just a single package from some overlay. (For some overlays there is some web-interface, for others not; and of course also a web interface is not really a standardized solution.)

hielvc · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

Just portage. I can get into enough trouble just useing it.
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

currently paludis is not my package-manager of choice:

I'm using it for syncing all of the overlays (it's a little more convenient for me to enter paludis -s),

portage is able to handle all of the overlays (I've entered them into /etc/make.conf),

some packages needed to be masked - don't ask me which they were, that was a long time ago

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rgk · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

right now i just use sunrise (though i mostly just use the main portage tree)
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yabbadabbadont · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

Just my local overlay:

WastingBody · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 105

I use my local overlay and the desktop-effects overlay for some eye candy.

arnvidr · l33t Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 629 Location: Oslo, Norway

Is there a way to check what overlays are actually in use? layman reports 7 overlays, but I suspect at least one of those are not used, since whatever package I wanted from it was found to not be what I wanted after all.
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bytenirvana · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

I only use one overlay (desktop-effects) for compiz because the versions in portage are too old.
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Leon_UK · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

I only use one overlay, enlightenment, since e17 is my Desktop shell (as they call it) of choice, on both my pc and laptop

node_one · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 165

I want to apologize to the people using 7 or more overlays for not making the poll go to 20 or something. I did not mean to cluster all of you together.

poly_poly-man · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: What's in your personal overlay?

I, for one, keep a personal /usr/local/portage around, in case I need to modify an ebuild, download one from bgo, etc.

This doesn't count layman overlays - only what you keep yourself.

I have:

games-arcade/ppracer, with patch for more joystick buttons support (8->19, to support my sixaxis)
games-arcade/supertux, the 0.3.1 slotted ebuild

media-gfx/f4l, not that it works.

net-mail/mailutils, I forget why...

app-cdr/k9copy, with the new-ffmpeg patch

x11-base/xorg-server, version 1.4.2, never got it to compile. On the beta of the new one now.

net-nds/openldap, forget why...

games-sports/xmoto, version 0.4.1 from a while ago.

what's in yours?
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AllenJB · Veteran Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 1285

https://trac.allenjb.me.uk/overlay - I used to manage it manually, but since I've put it in subversion, it's become much easier to manage because I can safely delete the packages I'm not interested in or have no use for any more and still be able to recover them if I want. It's also easier to share it between all my machines (2 laptops, 2 pc's (1 of which is a xen host), 2(+) xen guests and a xen server). Making it public was a logical small step, since I was publishing many of the packages on my website anyway (I do push the ones I believe are suitable into bugzilla, but many of them are custom patches or development branches which would never make it into the main tree).

node_one · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 165

Bazaar overlay, local, with ebuilds from/for Bugzilla. Most are maintainer-wanted/needed.

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

Way, way to much stuff:

skellr · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject:

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5937

merged into an existing thread.
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