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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:26:44 +0100
From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf has no effect
 anymore?
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On 03/16/2015 12:15:43 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:02:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>=20
> > > Thanks Alan, I have auto-sync=3Dno.
> > > Still,
> > >=20
> > > emerge -avu @world=20
> > > considers even those overlays which have auto-sync=3Dno. =20
> >=20
> >=20
> > I see now. When you said "update" I assumed you meant sync.
> > update as in emerge world is different.
> >=20
> >=20
> > Does the option "priority", set per-repo, and documented here:
> >=20
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync
> >=20
> > fit your needs?
>=20
> If the overlays are managed by layman, check out the --enable and
> --disable options for layman.
>=20

Thanks Neil, that seems to be exactly what I was looking for.
Currently I still have a problem.

After
layman -D ALL
which proceeded without any error message.
I tried, e.g.,
layman -E science

which gives me
Exception caught enabling repository "science": Section 'science' already e=
xists

Helmut.
=