Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage directory ownerships?

[Mick]

On Wednesday 16 Sep 2015 15:51:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:19:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" ==>
> > > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman"
> >
> > No. DoItRite as above. That PORTDIR_OVERLAY crap never did work right -
> > all overlays were essentially considered equal and it would be pot luck
> > where your next ebuild comes from....
>
> It was according to the order of the overlays in PORTDIR_OVERLAY, for
> ebuilds with equal versions.

This may help:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync

I have not yet changed my layman config to use 
/etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf but will be looking into installing 
laymanator and doing the necessary when I get a minute.

-- 
Regards,
Mick