On Friday 11 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    Now, if I knew anything at all about creating and maintaining my
> own overlay I'd be really dangerous. ;-)

It's easy and very useful. There's even an article on the wiki somewhere
that tells you how to do it. In summary:

- create a parent directory for the overlay, something
like /usr/portage/local/mark
- put your ebuilds in there, using the same <category>/<app> structure
as the main tree
- run 'ebuild /path/to/overlay/ebuild manifest' to create proper
manifest files
- edit an entry in /etc/make.conf to tell portage to use your overlay

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