text: # ebuild
  
  > A low level interface to the Gentoo Portage system.
  
  - Create or update the package manifest:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} manifest`
  
  - Clean the temporary build directories for the build file:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} clean`
  
  - Fetch sources if they do not exist:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} fetch`
  
  - Extract the sources to a temporary build directory:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} unpack`
  
  - Compile the extracted sources:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} compile`
  
  - Install the package to a temporary install directory:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} install`
  
  - Install the temporary files to the live filesystem:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} qmerge`
  
  - Fetch, unpack, compile, install and qmerge the specified ebuild file:
  
  `ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} merge`
  