General concepts
This section covers some general concepts with which you should be familiar when writing ebuilds or working with the Gentoo repository.
Contents
- The basics of Autotools
- Configuration file protection
- Copyright policy
- Dependencies
- Ebuild revisions
- Emerge and ebuild relationships
- Filesystem
- Git to RSYNC
- Install destinations
- Licenses
- Mailing lists
- Manifest
- Mirrors
- News items
- Overlay
- Package collisions
- Package maintainers
- Position Independent Code
- The Portage cache
- Projects
- Sandbox
- Slotting
- The Gentoo repository
- USE flags
- User environment
- Virtuals