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.BR /etc/portage/profile/
site-specific overrides of \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR
.TP
+.BR /usr/portage/metadata/
+.nf
+layout.conf
+.fi
+.TP
.BR /usr/portage/profiles/
.nf
arch.list
@@ -543,6 +548,23 @@ media\-other
.fi
.RE
.TP
+.BR /usr/portage/metadata/
+.RS
+.TP
+.BR layout.conf
+Specifies information about the repository layout. Currently, only a single
+"masters" attribute is supported, which is used to specify names of
+repositories which satisfy dependencies on eclasses and/or ebuilds. Each
+repository name should correspond the value of a \fBrepo_name\fR entry
+from one of the repositories that is configured via the \fBPORTDIR\fR or
+\fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)).
+
+.I Example:
+.nf
+masters = gentoo java-overlay
+.fi
+.RE
+.TP
.BR /usr/portage/profiles/
Global Gentoo settings that are controlled by the developers. To override
these settings, you can use the files in \fB/etc/portage/\fR.