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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Package: gentoolkit/gentoolkit-dev +Authors: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> + Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> + Ian Leitch <port001@gentoo.org> + Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org> + Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> + Paul Varner <fuzzyray@gentoo.org> + See src/<tool>/AUTHORS for tool-specific authors + +MOTIVATION + +The gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev packages contain a collection of useful +administration scripts particular to the Gentoo Linux distribution. It contains +rough drafts and implementations of features that may in time make it into +Portage, or into full-fledged tools in their own right. + +The gentoolkit-dev package is intended primarily for Gentoo developers. + +CONTENTS + +gentoolkit +========== +eclean - tool to clean up outdated distfiles and packages +equery - replacement for etcat and qpkg +etcat - extracts auxillary information from portage (deprecated) +euse - tool to manage USE flags +glsa-check - tool to manage GLSA's (Gentoo Linux Security Advisory) +qpkg - convient package query tool (deprecated) +revdep-rebuild - scans/fixes broken shared libs and binaries + +gentoolkit-dev +============== +ebump - Ebuild revision bumper +echangelog - update portage ChangeLogs +ego - +ekeyword - modify package KEYWORDS +epkgmove - tool for moving and renaming packages in CVS +eviewcvs - generate viewcvs URLs +gensync - Overlay Sync Tool + +IMPROVEMENTS + +Any suggestions for improvements should be sent to tools-portage@gentoo.org, or +added as a bug assigned to us. + +We only accept new contributions if they are written in bash or python. |