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Portage
Portage is the package manager of Gentoo.
Emerge step-by-step for modifying source
ebuild fluxbox fetch ; to download the package ebuild fluxbox unpack ; to uncompress the sources ; here you can modify sources ebuild fluxbox compile ; to compile ebuild fluxbox install ; to install (first part) ebuild fluxbox qmerge ; to install (second part) ebuild fluxbox clean ; to clean temporary folders
This is exactly equivalent to :
emerge fluxbox
Save an installed package
To save your package as it is installed :
quickpkg xorg-x11
To restore it (obliges emerge to use local binaries) :
emerge -K xorg-x11
Updating config files
After an emerge, there is often a warning telling you that some config files need to be updated. The tool called etc-update can help you to do this, by merging automatically what it can and asking your for the rest :
sudo etc-update
Clean your portage folder
If you do anything about it, your portage folder will grow along time. This is due to the distfiles folder, where are stored all source tarballs of packages you have installed.
There is a portage tool called eclean which can remove all useless tarballs while keeping interesting ones :
eclean --destructive distfiles
