Using Eselect Repository to enable a Gentoo Overlay

[@10leej]

eix also ships eix-remote which you can use to search remote overlays you dont have enabled.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

YT's algorithm keeps deleting comments when I use certain completely innocent words! Sorry for the weird language below. There's a web interface for you to discover which packages are in which overlays, discover it with the words zugaina gentoo portage overlays. Put the package name in there, it will tell you what versions are in what overlays.

[@bandit7753]

Would love to see a video on how to install steam without flatpak tried the gentoo steam but I did unmask it after that it got so confusing haha

[@Winnetou17]

Hey Chris, since you asked about ideas in a previous video - one thing I was thinking about, but didn't got to properly research and your video (this one) reminded me of it: There's this thing that compiling on Gentoo takes a lot of time (the main reason normies are scared of it, as if they had to watch it or something... anyway, I digress). And, especially so if the one compiling is old/slow. Also, if you don't use just your RAM, it also induces non-trivial amount of wear on an SSD, arguably on an HDD too. So, one idea to get over that is to compile it on a better suited machine, with a powerful CPU and a decent amount of RAM. Or not so powerful CPU, but a machine which is not used for something else while that is happening. Given the above, how complicated is to setup so your main machine uses a custom repo made by you, hosted by you on another computer which does the compiling, so your main machine (or other machines, like some Raspberry Pis) can simply install everything directly as precompiled binaries ? Something that is somewhat automated, to check for new stuff, download the source, compile for a different target, with USE flags, maybe even do multiple compiles for multiple targets. Anyway, good work! I enjoy this casual videos, no panicking when something doesn't work or make sense, slowly taking care of all things.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah that would be a cool idea for a video but unfortunately I only have one machine so I really don’t know how to set something like that up. I know Josh (Matt’s Josh) has done something like that and he had a video on it

[@Winnetou17]

@@linuxtechgeek Oh, cool, I'll check his videos, thanks for the tip!

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

I did used to use Layman, it was okay at what it did and ultimately was the same kind of idea as eselect-repository. I think you can still use layman but I moved to eselect-repository myself when I came across it by accident. I prefer eselect-repository overall because eselect as an environment to select important configuration options across your existing Linux build (e.g. eselect python and eselect kernel) makes more logical sense.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah I know it was used back in the day but I thought eselect repo was more up to date and more relevant today

[@RobMonette]

Alright great video, however I don't use overlays anymore. They tend to get out of date and will mess up your use flags and take hours to unclog them before updating the system. I now use Flatpak and so far I'm pleased with it.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah stick to what works

[@thomaskosvic6103]

Make the font larger so one can read the screen text

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah I try most of the time, some of my newer videos my font should be a decent size

[@Open__Source]

without enabling third repo # eix-remote update # eix -R brave