Project:MATE

Purpose
This project's purpose is to provide a complete and up to date offering of MATE Desktop packages for Gentoo. Additionally, this project exists to help facilitate cooperative efforts amongst Gentoo developers to that goal.

State of packaging
Currently, all MATE packages in Gentoo are in the 1.8.x branch. Upstream has released version 1.10. The version bump of the desktop environment is underway in the gentoo-mate repository. You can add it your overlay by manually adding it to your repos.conf. Sample repos.conf and layman accessibility to follow. Here is a table with the state of packaging in the project's repo and in Gentoo's repo.

Additional Resources

 * MATE Article on Gentoo's Wiki