[gentoo-dev] Misc questions on ebuilds

[Keith Gross]

I'm trying to improve the ebuilds I've been writing by reviewing the existing 
ebuilds but there seems they very widely.  Everything from simple somewhat 
crude examples that looksomething like my efforts to other that are much 
larger and elaborate.

I'm wondering if someone with more experience might have a couple of ebuilds 
they're particularly proud of that perhaps would make examples?  I'd hate to 
perpetuate practices that are no longer the proper way of doing things.

I was also wondering if portage has a standard method of specifying a menu 
item or complete menu that should be created when the package is installed 
that would work for multiple different desktop environments.