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Setting up layman and dlang overlay

1) Emerge layman package, configure portage to use it:

emerge layman
echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf

If you have different directory where layman data is stored, you should modify this command respectively;

2) Edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg and append http://svn.dsource.org/projects/gentoo/trunk/layman.xml to overlays variable;

3) Fetch overlays list and add dlang overlay:

layman -f
layman -a dlang

After this you can upgrade the overlay with this simple command:

layman -s dlang