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I broke down today and looked into [Gentoo overlays][] and [layman][].
It seems much simpler now than it did when I last looked at it a year
or so ago.  I guess I'm just more familiar with how portage works...

Anyhow, I've posted my personal `wtk` overlay and [[layman
XML|layman.xml]] describing it (update: my overlay is now listed in
the [global overlay list][global], so there is no need to mess with my
personal `layman.xml`).  The overlay is a fairly strange mix:

- app-misc/lifelines
  ([Gentoo 42103](http://bugs.gentoo.org/42103))
- dev-python/curses-check-for-keypress
  (my [[curses_check_for_keypress]] package)
- dev-python/FFT-tools
  (my [[FFT-tools]] wrappers)
- dev-python/splittable-kwargs
  (my [[splittable_kwargs]] package)
- dev-tex/draftmark
  (a dev-tex/drexel-thesis dependency)
- dev-tex/drexel-thesis
  (my [[drexel-thesis]] class)
- dev-util/be
  ([Gentoo 303867](http://bugs.gentoo.org/303867))
- media-gfx/metacam
  ([Gentoo 65200](http://bugs.gentoo.org/65200))
- media-sound/abcmidi
  ([Gentoo 76017](http://bugs.gentoo.org/76017),
   also in the [Sunrise overlay][])
- sci-libs/comedilib
  ([Gentoo 348206](http://bugs.gentoo.org/348206), [[comedilib|Comedi]])
- sci-misc/comedi-headers
  ([[Comedi]] kernel module headers)
- sci-physics/hooke
  (my branch of the [[Hooke]] [[force spectroscopy]] analyzer)
- sci-physics/sawsim
  (my [[sawsim]] force spectroscopy simulator)
- virtual/thesis-tools
  (useful dependencies for compiling a [[thesis]])

For those that aren't yet familiar with layman and overlays, install
layman with:

    # emerge -av app-portage/layman

Optionally edit `/etc/layman/layman.cfg`, and install my overlay with:

    # layman --add wtk

Then go ahead and `emerge` any of the extra packages my overlay
provides!

You might also be interested in my [[branch of Torsten Veller's
overlay|Tove overlay]].  Update: my branch made it easier to install
updated versions of [ikiwiki][], but Torsten has sinced pushed the
ikiwiki ebuild into the stock Portage tree.

As a note to myself, you can test all the ebuilds in your overlay from
the overlay's root directory with:

    # emerge --oneshot -av $(find . -name '*.ebuild' | sed 's/^..//' | sed 's/\/[^/]*$//' | sort | uniq)

[Gentoo overlays]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
[layman]: http://layman.sourceforge.net/
[global]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
[Sunrise overlay]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise
[ikiwiki]: http://ikiwiki.info/

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