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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>(by way of Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@devrieze.net>)
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_OVERLAY
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:01:58 +0200
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On Sunday 20 October 2002 03:17 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Sunday 20 October 2002 12:13, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > Where am I supposed to define this?  I used to have it, but I have
> > rebuild my machine from scratch and now I can not find where this is
> > documented?  I have tried make.conf and setting the environment varia=
ble,
> > both to no avail.
>
> As you can see when you emerge portage this variable is called
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and is specified normally in /etc/make.conf
>
> Paul

Thank you.  Would it be appropriate to add this to make.globals in the
 future? Perhaps as

PORTDIR_OVERLAY=3D""

?

Thanks in advance,

Tom Veldhouse