On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:00:31 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > The last named overlay has the highest priority, the standard portage
> > tree the lowest. Rather than mess with make.conf, you could override
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY on the command line
> > 
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/my/preferred/overlay" emerge foo  
> 
> What will happen at the next emerge uaDv world?

Nothing, if the versions in the other overlays are not higher (which can
be fixed by masking).

An alternative approach could be to have a script that runs layman -S
and then removes the unwanted packages from the other overlays.

 
-- 
Neil Bothwick

Pedestrians come in two types: Quick or Dead.

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