[gentoo-dev] Ebuild questions

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@charter.net>]

I've been working on creating an ebuild this week and after working with it I 
have some questions about how ebuilds work.

1.  I assume that if I add no functions to an ebuild the process is A) 
src_unpack, B) src_compile, C) src_install.  In other words there are three 
steps or functions that will be executed.  If I desire I can make my own 
functions for these but if I don't I get these three steps executed by emerge.

2.  What is the best way to let the user know what's happening - for example, 
"compiling xyz module now".  I notice some builds use einfo to put out 
messages about what you have to do after install (add user to groups, etc).  
Are there specific ebuild functions I should use or are plain old echo 
statements okay?


Thanks.

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Brett I. Holcomb
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