Will I lose my dignity? Will you still care?

I work on NetworkManager, and so I am subscribed to the NM mailing list.  A user sent a mail to the list saying that NetworkManager wasn't working for them, and digging in, it turns out that they are using Vidalinux, except that as far as I can tell, they aren't using Gentopia's overlay.  An interesting thought.  This Vidalinux has NetworkManager in their tree, which isn't necessarily bad, although I don't think that it is quite ready for Portage itself just yet.  I am not happy with the Gentoo backend, and am currently rewriting it, and I know that a lot of users will be put off because they can't set static information yet.  I am hoping for 1 more release before I put NetworkManager into the tree, and I am currently working on the patches to dhcp so that the support is there for dhcdbd.

 So, are there any Vidalinux users out there who read the Planet, or Universe (not sure which I am on) and know exactly how vlos is setup?  Or even if someone from vlos would contact me, so that the efforts in the Gentoo end of things are more unified and less re-inventing of the wheel.

So, there has been much talk of overlays on the gentoo-dev mailing list.  I have had an overlay that I use between 2 different laptops, and I have always “synced” them using

rsync –rsh=”ssh” -avzP –delete . laptopname:/usr/local/portage/

Now, it hasn’t been easy, as there were times where I would have ebuilds that I wanted to keep in one, but I didn’t have in the other, and so on and so forth, so I have decided to try out cogito, as a versioned control system for them, and while creating the repository was easy, and doing an initial import of it on the other laptop was easy, I am not sure what I am doing wrong now.  I had a directory with an ebuild where the software was no longer available (brightside) so I did a cg-rm ebuild, cg-rm -r brightside, and then did a cg-commit, and cg-log shows that its committed, and when I goto the other machine, and cg-update, it shows that it should be branched exactly the same, but for some reason, it isn’t.  I am still showing the files in there.  I am continuing my search, but, if anyone knows what I am doing wrong, let me know!