In the handbook chapter where speaks about how to not sync some portage categories: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_chap1 It doesn't say that for rsync_excludes file to work you have to set the following variable in /etc/make.conf: RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM="/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" I was about to file a bug against portage due to 'emerge --sync' ignoring my rsync_excludes file when I saw I needed that variable thanks to this wiki[1] page. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Fixed. Thanks for reporting.
