Update gentoo kernel

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In gentoo, everything gets updated via portage using "emerge". For the kernel, emerge only updates the source. You have to manually configure, compile, and install the kernel source into a kernel binary. This is to allow you to keep your kernel tuned for your machine.

Gentoo installs the source here: 

/usr/src/linux-#kernelversion#-gentoo-#gentooreleaseversion#

Because I have defined the "symlink" USE flag for gentoo-sources, it will also symlink the latest downloaded source (whether you want it to or not) to: 

/usr/src/linux
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