-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 20/12/12 01:18 PM, George Shapovalov wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2012 13:36:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> What program uses this "local" directory? It's not used >>> directly by portage itself, though portage has an exclude for >>> it in the default PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS setting (in >>> /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals). >> >> It goes back a long time, and is basically a poor man's local >> overlay without having to use layman. As I understand it, portage >> will treat the directory like any other when looking for ebuilds >> and resolving deps, but exclude it from a sync. > Nope, he means /usr/portage/local, not /usr/local/portage.
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