> 1. Automated generation of a portage overlay based on the currently installed 
> packages, these would then be safe from sync. The tool would need to be able 
> to drag ebuilds out of some sort of archive for existing machines.
> 2. An easy way to introduce and manage and remove ebuilds in the overlay

How is this different than making a tree based off of the snapshots
created by releng for each release? Now, if you want to add newer stuff
later on, it would be nice to have a tool to grab all the nessary
ebuilds required for that newer ebuild. Perhaps thats what you're
talking about.

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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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