On 07/08/2014 07:11 PM, Sebastian Luther wrote: > Am 08.07.2014 18:58, schrieb Michael Haubenwallner: >> Hello fellow Portage developers, >> >> attached portage patch draft aims to allow for easy distributing eclasses to >> be tested by >> multiple tinderboxes on various architectures, without being active for >> normal installs. > > What does the patch allow you to do, that you can't do right now? (i.e. > put an eclass with the same name in an repository and use > eclass-overrides to force its use in another repo?)
Is there an easy way to use the eclasses from the overriding tree, but not the (usually newer) ebuilds from there - such as 'configure but disable repo (except for use in eclass-override)'? Thanks! /haubi/