GF: Gentoo Fundamentals

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• GF1: What are the letters in "[ebuild N]"?
  
• GF2: xx config files need updating
  
• GF3: How do I get a list of installed packages?
  
• GF4: Can portage build one package while downloading others?
  
• GF5: What are masked packages? KEYWORDS / package.mask
  
• GF6: Difference between 'emerge sync' and 'emerge rsync'?
  
• GF7: emerge doesn't work at all any more, what can I do?
  
  
• GF8: I'm trying to install this program (e.g. vim), and it keeps trying to install all these libraries (e.g. X, gnome) that I don't want. What should I do?
  
• GF9: How can I create custom ebuilds that portage will find and that don't get deleted when resyncing?
  
• GF10: What do I do if an ebuild is missing from portage and emerge search doesn't find what I'm looking for?
  
• GF11: Can portage be run as a non-root user?
  
• GF12: Portage and 'fixpackages'
  
• GF13: What are .keep files?
  
• GF14: When will the next release of gentoo be available?
  
• GF15: Rsync etiquette OR How often should I sync?
  
• GF16: Help! My "world" file is gone/corrupt!
  
• GF17: I emerged <package>, how do I uninstall it?
  
• GF18: I have upgraded gcc and now emerge fails right and left.
  
• GF19: Packages fail to unmerge.
  
• GF20: C compiler cannot create executables
  
• GF21: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
  
• GF22: Circular upgrades and downgrades of a package
  
• GF23: Error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5
  

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