On 04/01/2010 04:41 PM, James Cloos wrote: > And given that portage inappropriately ignores a fixed eclass in the > OVERlay, that means that every time one syncs one must re-patch the > offending eclasses.
You can configure eclass override behavior via eclass-overrides in /etc/portage/repos.conf, as documented in `man portage`. There are a number of caveats to eclass-overrides, and that's why it's not the default behavior. For example, beware that you'll need to set PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude=/metadata/cache" if your overlay eclasses modify any ebuild metadata (as documented in `man portage`). -- Thanks, Zac
