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
• [topic=438555]GF23[/topic]: Error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5