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(contracted; show full)gs is the usual way to configure programs on Gentoo. USE flags may be set manually, or via user-friendly tools such as 'ufed' (USE flag editor), which lists flags along with their description. A list of available USE flags, is available in the [http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml "Gentoo Linux Use Variable Descriptions" page of the Gentoo website].

===Ebuilds===
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Gentoo does not, by default (see next paragraph), use binary packages as [[package management system]]s 
do (like [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]) do, employing instead a format known as the ebuild. Whereas RPMs are precompiled [[binaries]], ebuilds are [[shell script]]s with variables and functions which contain a description of the software, and instructions on how to obtain, configure, [[compile]], and install it, more closely akin to (but more powerful than) the [[RPM Package Manager#Spec file|.spec files]] distributed in [[SRPM]]s. There are nearly 25,000 ebuilds available, the majority of which are distributed by the Gentoo [[Mirror (computing)|mi(contracted; show full)[[nl:Portage]]
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