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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<guide self="general-concepts/emerge-and-ebuild/">
<chapter>
<title>Emerge and Ebuild Relationships</title>

<body>

<figure short="How emerge, ebuild and foo.ebuild interact" link="diagram.png">
</figure>

<p>
The <c>emerge</c> program is a high level wrapper for <c>ebuild.sh</c> that handles
dependency tracking, safe installs and uninstalls and so on. <c>emerge</c> calls
<c>ebuild.sh</c> during the build process, which in turn handles the ebuild file
and any eclasses. The <c>${D}</c> to <c>${ROOT}</c> install is handled by <c>emerge</c>.
</p>

<todo>http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/portage.html</todo>

</body>
</chapter>
</guide>