Profiles

This section provides details on the profiles/ directory. All of these files are also documented in man portage, but the canonical reference for profiles is in the Package Manager Specification.

Portage-specific behaviour must not be relied upon in the repository.

Profiles must not contain a package.provided file. It was used to pretend that a package was installed without an ebuild being merged for it, which could not express slots or USE flags correctly. Use a virtual package instead, see Virtuals.