pd-overlay

Intro

Project Pd-Overlay wants to bring you up to date PureData externals and related software to your Gentoo Linux OS.

Why an overlay? Because Gentoo Portage tree is big, and the process of releasing ebuilds to the official tree takes time.

So Pd-Overlay means speed.

Also, Pd-Overlay is open towards users: you can easily contribute, by submitting bug reports, giving feedback, suggestion, or by developing new ebuilds, cause it's easy and you will find all the information you need on this site.

How to use it

Basically you have three choices:

• Setup and sync the pd-overlay manually
  That's the minimalist way of using it: you'll need to setup make.conf and each time you want to synchronize the tree you will have to do a SVN checkout.
• Use layman (an overlay manager) which does the above for you, hiding the (relative) complexity of the manual process.
  You will need to emerge layman and setup it, as explained in our page.
• Use paludis, a (still experimental) portage replacement.
  If you are one who always stays up to date, probably you'll be already using paludis, so here's a typical configuration for our overlay.

Once you are ok with the configuration and synchronization stuff, it's time to emerge stuff. Note that almost all packages are not marked stable, so you might need to unmask them (see the Gentoo Wiki for an explanation of this topic)

Report bugs

To report bugs about ebuilds (broken ebuilds, incorrect install locations, and so on...) or just to give us feedback or to submit new ebuilds, use this link

Contributing

Developers go here ;)