Syncing your portage tree and overlays with eix

If you want to sync your portage tree and your layman-overlays with one command, you can use

eix sync

for that.

All you have to do is to create

/etc/eix-sync.conf

and place a :::bash *

in it.

If you want to have a cronjob for that create for example a file named /etc/cron.weekly/eix.cron

and put something like

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/eix-sync

in it.

You can then delete all other cronjobs like emerge --sync and layman -S

As usual man eix has all the info you need.