I'm unsure if this is the right component. If not, feel free to change please. The last line in my /etc/make.conf is this: source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf To source layman's make.conf and add the overlays. This statement gets -ignored- if it isn't followed by a newline. That is, if the file directly ends after the statement. Adding a newline after it makes it work magically. I am unsure if this happens in every case or only if the last statement is 'source'. I haven't got time to test it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add source statement to end of file 2. Remove the trailing newline if present (some editors add them automatically. mcedit doesn't) 3. Try to emerge a package that is supposed to be in one of your overlays Actual Results: The overlays get ignored, emerge complains Expected Results: The overlays get sourced and used for the emerge session
Vaguely remember having seen such a bug, but can't find it. Bear with me, Portage team...
This is fixed in 2.2_rc4.
