Awesome

The main goal of edgets overlay is to bring you the newest versions of modern software available across the internet.

Getting started

Edgets is available through eselect/repository, so all you need to do is install app-eselect/eselect-repository (if you don't have already) and enable the repository.

# emerge --ask app-eselect/eselect-repository
# eselect repository enable edgets
# emerge --sync

Unmasking packages

Most of the packages are masked, so you have to unmask them or tell portage to do so.

# emerge --ask <package-name> --autounmask   # type yes
# dispatch-conf                              # press u

More information about unmasking here.

If you, for example, want to unmask all packages from this overlay for architecture amd64, create file /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/edgets with following content:

*/*::edgets ~amd64

Installing packages

Now, when overlay is added and package unmasked, you are ready to install it.

# emerge --ask <package-name>

Upgrading packages

Synchronize overlay tree and unmask newest version of package.

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask <package-name> --autounmask   # type yes
# dispatch-conf                              # press u
# emerge --ask <package-name>

You can use >= in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.accept_keywords to avoid manual unmasking for every version bump.

Featured packages

See PACKAGES.md

Contribution

If you want to add, update or fix some package ebuild in edgets overlay,<br> you can open new issue or create a pull request. Your contribution is welcome.