So after a reading through a bunch of stuff [1][2][3][4][5], what I'm going to do for the goal above is:
* move to sys-apps/shadow trunk [6] * fork my own user.eclass from v1.17, modify it to use --root $ROOT when calling shadow stuff * stick my user.eclass into myoverlay/eclass/ * # echo "lkraav" > myoverlay/profiles/repo_name * # echo "[DEFAULT]\neclass-overrides = lkraav" > /etc/portage/repos.conf * # echo "PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=\"--exclude=/metadata/cache\"" >> /etc/make.conf * # rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache * # echo "emerge --regen" >> /etc/cron.weekly/09-my-portage-update-script * subscribe to atom feed of portage user.eclass changes, merge stuff until sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.5 surfaces and maybe main tree user.eclass gets patched to use --root * try to achieve clamlike happiness with this setup Anything particularly important I'm missing? Is this the rightish way to do it? [1]: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5877500.html [2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.gentoo.dev/FYJ4g5IryIw/discussion [3]: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312407&group_id=30580&atid=411480 [4]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53269' [5]: http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-embedded/295178-emerge-root-users-not-created.html [6]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393073
