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