Translations:Basic guide to write Gentoo Ebuilds/41/en
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Write an ebuild to install a piece of software on Gentoo, when there are no suitable preexisting ebuilds. It's a relatively straight forward task, and is the only way to cleanly install most "third party" software system-wide. The ebuild will allow the package manager to track every file installed to the system, to allow clean updates and removal.