[gentoo-user] Where to put own keyboard variants

[Sebastian Dörner]

Hi,
some time ago I created a variant for the us xkb-layout by adding

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "my_variant" {
 include "latin"

//my changes here
};

to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us. That worked pretty well but during the
recent xorg-update, the file was overridden. Luckily I had a backup, but
that shows that it wasn't the supposed place for my changes.
So where can I store my us-variant, so that X finds the layout, but the
changes survive updates (I was thinking of a place in /etc or ~, but I
don't know where X is looking for such files).

Thanks for any help,
Sebastian