As currently implemented, equery which shows the ebuild path for the best version available for a package regardless if the ebuild is in the portage tree or the overlay tree. Adding support for querying only the portage tree or the overlay tree will allow more fine grained control over the results.
Created attachment 134002 [details, diff] add support for using use hints for packages from overlays a very crude implementation for equery info --overlay-tree which adds support to scan for descriptions in overlay's use.local.desc patch applies to current svn (version 454)
patch won't apply to current stable version of equery (=app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r2) because of the renaming of options but conflict is easy to fix and have a patch as well if there is interest. ideally, would be better to use a function that is reused in both cases and add support as well for global use flags defined in the overlays as well to avoid the exception handling all together as the use of those hints in overlays isn't even a warning IMHO (specially considering that there was no use for them until this patch). tested by using my own overlay in amd64 by doing : # layman -f -o http://tapir.sajinet.com.pe/gentoo/layman.xml -a sajinet # emerge -DNvupt kvm # equery uses -o kvm
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204324 ***