Glossary

PN
Package name in Gentoo syntax. Example: jinja2
MY_PN
Package name used in ebuilds converted from PN to match upstream package name.
PV
Package version in Gentoo syntax. Example: 0.1_beta3
MY_PV
Package version used in ebuilds converted from PV to match upstream package version.
MY_P
Package name and version in Gentoo syntax. Example: jinja2-0.1_beta3
SRC_URI
URI string from where source code is downloaded.
HOMEPAGE
Homepage address of a package.
LICENSE
License which software is copyrighted under
DEPEND
List of dependencies needed for compiling/setup
RDEPEND
List of runtime dependencies
S
Working directory while portage is emerging an ebuild
PYTHON_MODNAME
List of python module names in this ebuild
PyPi
Python Package Index (CPAN alike repository for packages) — http://pypi.python.org/pypi
DESCRIPTION
Portage variable, short description of an ebuild program
AUTHOR
Person who initially wrote the program
eclass
Bash script provided by portage for handling ebuilds

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