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Package: Gentoolkit
Version: 0.2.0_pre5
Authors: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org>
         Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org>
		 Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
         See src/<tool>/AUTHORS for tool-specific authors

MOTIVATION

Gentoolkit is a collection of useful adminstration 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.

CONTENTS

dep-clean           - cleans out unwanted dependencies
emerge-rsync        - coloured output of changes in last rsync
emerge-webrsync     - rsync-over-http 
equery				- replacement for etcat and qpkg
epm                 - rpm-like query tool
etcat               - extracts auxillary information from portage
etc-update          - keeps your /etc up to date after package installs
pkg-clean           - cleans packages
pkg-size            - calculates size of an installed package
portage-statistics  - shows various statistics about the Portage Tree
qpkg                - convient package query tool
revdep-rebuild      - scans/fixes broken shared libs and binaries
useflag             - tool for handling use flag settings


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.