[gentoo-user] Local eclass?

[Ian Zimmerman]

I'm trying to take an ebuild from a layman overlay and make it my own.
I've followed the advice at

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/CustomTree#Defining_a_custom_repository

and

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay

but, there is a problem:  the package uses its own eclasses, right now
they are in /var/lib/layman/$OVERLAY/eclass.  When I copy the ebuild to
my local repo and run "repoman manifest", repoman bails out because it
cannot locate the eclass as inherited from the ebuild file.

Where do I have to move the eclass files so as to make them visible to
repoman, and presumably the rest of portage?  I'd rather not put them in
/usr/portage/eclass or the different location I configured for the gentoo
repo on this system.

Thanks.

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