Mark Knecht wrote: > At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay > what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I > don't know it will be removed until it's been removed.
You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up the entire /usr/portage tree, and then, when you find an upgrade has broken an essential package, untar the ball over your new tree, and re-emerge the old version of the package. Once a month or so, when you find that also the newest tree gives you a working system, you would tar up that /usr/portage instead and remove the old one. This is the dead simple, brute force way, no overlay required. :) Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
