All pastes #976513 Raw Edit

playman

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·published 2008-04-08 06:37 UTC
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Index: faq/different.html.part
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--- faq/different.html.part	(revision 4398)
+++ faq/different.html.part	(working copy)
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
     <li><a href="different.html#elog">ELOG Equivalent</a></li>
     <li><a href="different.html#mkdir">No Automatic Directory Creation</a></li>
     <li><a href="different.html#revdep_rebuild">Revdep-rebuild Equivalent</a></li>
+    <li><a href="different.html#layman">Layman Equivalent</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <h2 id="tree">No <code>--tree</code> Equivalent</h2>
@@ -89,3 +90,19 @@
 
 <p>Use the <code>reconcilio</code> client.</p>
 
+<h2 id="layman">Layman Equivalent</h2>
+
+<p>Paludis ships with a ruby script that has the basic functionality of layman, called <code>playman</code>.
+To install playman, just make sure you have <code>ruby</code> set as a useflag for paludis.
+This will install /usr/share/paludis-*/ruby/demos/playman.rb and as of 0.26_alpha14 will symlink to /usr/bin/playman.
+
+<div class="note">
+    <p>playman -l will list all repositories,
+	    playman -a <reponame> will add the config file for <reponame> to /etc/paludis/repositories/reponame.conf
+    	syncing must be manually initiated by paludis (<code>paludis -s <reponame></code>)
+</div>