Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay
> what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I
> don't know it will be removed until it's been removed.

You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up 
the entire /usr/portage tree, and then, when you find an upgrade 
has broken an essential package, untar the ball over your new tree, 
and re-emerge the old version of the package.  Once a month or so, 
when you find that also the newest tree gives you a working system, 
you would tar up that /usr/portage instead and remove the old one.  
This is the dead simple, brute force way, no overlay required.  :)

Benno

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