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From:	Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var
Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:36
Message-Id:	`544D093F.8090908@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var by Martin Vaeth

1	On 10/26/2014 10:02 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
2	> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3	>>
4	>> I haven't bothered with it either, I really like being able to do:
5	>>
6	>> PORTDIR="$REPOS/gentoo-x86" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" emerge -1 whatever
7	>
8	> Why don't you do emerge -1 whatever::gentoo
9
10	When adding a new ebuild, I want the entire ::gentoo repo to disappear
11	so that I get warned if I forgot to do something in ::gentoo-x86.
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13
14	> Moreover, you can use PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES for temporary overrides
15	> of repos.conf
16
17	Well, it's not (documented?) in stable portage, so there's that =)
18
19	If I normally have ::gentoo, ::gentoo-x86, and 3 or 4 overlays, how easy
20	is it to wipe out everything except ::gentoo-x86 using PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES?