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
 - FEATURES
 - Filesystem
 - Git to RSYNC
 - Install Destinations
 - Licenses
 - 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