User:MGorny/Draft:Users' Guide to Repositories

By default, Gentoo provides a huge ebuild repository called gentoo. It contains all the officially supported packages maintained by Gentoo developers and proxied maintainers. However, there are numerous additional official and unofficial repositories which can provide additional packages or more experimental flavors of regular Gentoo packages.

Finding additional ebuild repositories
Gentoo maintains an official listing of ebuild repositories at overlays.gentoo.org. The official list can be additionally browsed and accessed using :