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