Mike wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only >> one). >> To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. >> >> I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire kde-4.1 SLOT has been >> removed. Can someone confirm? Am I actually dreaming? Anyone know why a >> perfectly reasonable set of ebuilds were removed? >> > > I have a similar problem when I 'emerge --sync' it deletes my overlays I > added with layman. > > Mike
My problem was I symlinked /usr/local to /usr so layman was installing the overlays to /usr/portage instead of /usr/local/portage and they were getting deleted on 'emerge --sync'. I changed the layman installation directory in /etc/layman/layman.cfg and solved that problem. Mike