&gt;&gt; &gt; This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete.  Does anyone know of a way to<br>&gt;&gt; &gt; install only certain packages from a layman overlay and<br>&gt;&gt; &gt; use eix-test-obsolete?<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; I don&#39;t add such overlays to make conf. Instead, I symlink directories for<br>
&gt;&gt; the packages I want into my local overlay.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I did that, too. But it has become more difficult now. E.g. the &#39;progress&#39;<br>&gt; overlay uses new EAPIs and new eclasses which even pull in incompatible packages, e.g. blas.<br>
&gt;<br>&gt; I haven&#39;t found a way to handle that by symlinks of similar methods.<br><br><div>I&#39;m trying to see if I can get away with the symlink method.  I removed the &quot;source /var/lib/layman/make.conf&quot; line from make.conf, created /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/, and created a symlink in that directory like &quot;geek-sources -&gt; /var/lib/layman/init6/sys-kernel/geek-sources&quot; but I get:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div> * Missing digest for &#39;/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.7.0.ebuild&#39;</div><div> * Missing digest for &#39;/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.6.10.ebuild&#39;</div>
<div> * Missing digest for &#39;/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.5.7.ebuild&#39;</div></div><div><br></div><div>- Grant</div>