On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, »Q« wrote:

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> You didn't need this.  It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't
> using a third party e-build.  The zip file came from Sun, but the
> ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree.
>
> Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages.  In
> this case, the ebuild isn't allowed to download the files it needs
> automagically, but it's still a Gentoo ebuild, not a third-party one.
>
> I've snipped the rest of what you wrote about overlays, &c., but it
> didn't look like anything was wrong, just unnecessary for what you want
> to do.  For more info about overlays, see
> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml>.


Thanks for the additional info.  Good to know!

Rather than clutter the list with a lot of thanks, let me just say thanks 
to all for any future replies written before knowing that I went ahead and 
took the plunge and it worked.

Bo Grimes