How to use a single package from an overlay?

[hornett]

Hello forum,

I'd like to install gtk-engines only from gnome-experimental so that I can use the new clearlooks theme from 2.11.6 instead of 2.10.

Is it possible to use just this single package from g-e without letting it update the rest of my system using this overlay?

All I could think of was to remove everything related from the world file, but then I wouldn't get any updates for those items at all would I?

Any help much appreciated- at this point I'm considering just downloading the tarball, building it and make installing it over the top of the 2.10 version in portage :-S

Ta

[kernelOfTruth]

1) checkout the overlay to a directory
2) copy over that program from that overlay to your local overlay (only that program e.g. sys-devel/foo --> into /usr/local/portage/sys-devel/foo)
3) mask is not needed since only that program is used

disadvantage: you need to copy over newer versions

cheers

other way:

1) checkout the overlay to a directory
2) create a symbolic link in /usr/local/portage, e.g. sys-devel/foo --> into /usr/local/portage/sys-devel/foo, where foo is the symlinked directory from the directory)
3) that way that program will updated once you update that "overlay" from 1)

advantage: program will be update
disadvantage: you still need to update the overlay exclusively
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[hornett]

Thanks! I really like the second option...however, when you emerge --sync, it overwrites the symlink and I have to recreate it.

Is there a clever way to avoid that? Or should I just make a script to do it- something like this perhaps: