[gentoo-dev] custom portage sections?

[Jean-Michel Smith]

Hi,

I am trying to create custom portage sections to hold ebuilds for in-house 
software, e.g. /usr/portage/kcco-libs, /usr/portage/kcco-apps, etc.).  
Unfortunately emerge doesn't seem to be able to find any ebuilds located in 
these directories (though if I move them to one of the already existing 
directories they work fine).

Is there a trick I'm missing in adding a custom section to the portage tree, 
or is this hardcoded into the portage utilities somewhere?

tia,

Jean.