>> Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)? >> This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome >> overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case: > > According to eix, there's a -9999 ebuild in the mpd overlay.
Thanks Neil. My layman stuff was split across /usr/local/portage and /usr/portage/local. /usr/local/portage is correct, right? - Grant