I must have misread the --ask output. I was sure that I saw some ::hardened-dev entries in the to-be-merged data, not only in the currently-instaled data.
But I found a typo, which I was not able to see yesterday, in make.conf which prevented portage from seeing the overlay. Aging eyes suck. Thanks, -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6