On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 16:15 -0700, bsquared wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com> wrote: > > > > The Gentoo ebuilds may prove useful. GNOME 3 is in overlay. > > > > Regards > > Thanks, I'm not sure what that means. I have no experience with > Gentoo's Distribution. Is this a build system, or a package manager? > > -Brian Overlay is an "additional repo". Gentoo is source-based distribution and it uses files called ebuilds to know how to build packages (automated LFS[1] ;) ). They are simply bash scripts although with additional functions (say emake instead of make) to handle special cases. Overlays are simply places where additional files are stored (GNOME's is here: git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnome.git). Regards [1] Although with few candies added like use flag handling etc.
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