stefan11111 <stefan11111@shitposting.expert> wrote: > This got me wondering though, is there no way to fix this globally > via make.conf instead of adding patched ebuilds to my overlay?
No. Until https://bugs.gentoo.org/209653 is fixed (which did not happen since 16 years and presumably never will), there is no other way to fix dependencies than to copy the ebuild to some overlay.