Alan McKinnon wrote: > Any custom changes you make to > the tree are wiped out with the next --sync anyway,
Who is talking about making custom changes? Who would make such changes to the main /usr/portage tree anyway? We're talking about a simple user here, no extras, no frills, no adaptations. He just wants to be able to keep a system working also when he syncs just once a year and finds that a working ebuild has been replaced with one that doesn't. No huge buildup of binary packages: if the update was succesful, he can delete all the old versions of the packages for which he has duplicates. > Trust me, Hrm. Why should I? > Tell me, have you ever actually used overlays? # ls -l /usr/local/portage/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 88 Dec 2 12:13 app-i18n drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 104 Dec 20 14:33 app-office drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 21 00:53 app-shells drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jun 10 2006 games-action drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 104 Oct 6 14:38 kde-base drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 Nov 15 23:07 net-irc drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 104 Dec 7 12:39 sys-apps drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 8 16:02 sys-libs drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Dec 18 23:38 sys-process drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 80 Aug 18 12:24 www-client drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Mar 18 2005 x11-base Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
