carney1979 <carney1979@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.02.20.21.02.35.335866@yahoo.com>...
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> > There's a new ebuild emerge sys-apps/eject-2.0.13. Worked for me
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> > Martin
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> Me being a Gentoo newb, what's an 'ebuild'?
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> David

An ebuild is like a framework or template for any given package. Even
things like glibc have a ``framework''; things inside include package
descriptions, homepages for the package, size of package. Its quite
unlike rpm or deb format files in that it doesn't contain the actual
build of the package, in gentoo you compile things on your own (there
are pre-built packages available though, but I think thats kind of
going around the advantages of gentoo over other linuxes).

Tomasz