README


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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eclean         - tool to clean up outdated distfiles and packages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.