eINIT has been masked for removal on the Gentoo portage tree

Although eINIT is no longer officially supported as Kyuba is set to replace it. Kyuba isn't quite there yet, however. But you may or may not have noticed that eINIT has been hard masked in the Gentoo portage tree. Some Gentoo developers felt that having expat bundled was a bad idea from a security aspect. We don't quite agree, but it's their call, anyway, if you still like using eINIT on Gentoo, you'll need to use the jyujin overlay in the future.

As soon as Kyuba is in a

As soon as Kyuba is in a workable state, I can again make proxy-maintenance for you...however the current layout with so many eclass is worth a discussion. :)

That's excellent, thank you

That's excellent, thank you very much. You know how to get in touch with Jyujin anyway. :)

Aya heh, it's indeed great

Aya heh, it's indeed great :D.

And not to worry too much about those eclasses, only reason i made them for the repository was because it made maintenance easier. The only eclass that might make sense in portage is the icemake.eclass, since all the recent kyuba ebuilds would otherwise end up with lots of duplicated code (and it helps with getting uniform use flags and all).

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