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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e63c25 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +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 + +CONTENTS +======== + +gentoolkit +---------- +ebump - Ebuild revision bumper +eclean - tool to clean up outdated distfiles and packages +ekeyword - modify package KEYWORDS +enalyze - Analyze all installed pkgs or rebuild package.* files +epkginfo - wrapper to equery: Display metadata about a given package. +equery - replacement for etcat and qpkg +eread - script to read portage log items from einfo, ewarn etc. +eshowkw - Display keywords for specified package(s) +euse - tool to manage USE flags +imlate - Displays candidates for keywords for an architecture... +qpkg - convient package query tool (deprecated) +revdep-rebuild - scans/fixes broken shared libs and binaries + +gentoolkit-dev +-------------- +DEPRECATED + +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. |