FAQ_Portage_tools_overview
Introduction
Here you can find a fairly complete list of portage tools. This includes packages found in portage itself along with others that haven't (yet) made their way into portage.
Please note that I am no portage expert. I put these guides together so that I can more easily learn about it.
Packages by source
Commands which are part of a package but have a different name are listed below these packages.
Portage
sys-apps
| Name | Homepage | Description |
|---|
| portage | [1] | The Portage Package Management System (Similar to BSD's ports). The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo. |
app-portage
| Name | Homepage | Description |
|---|
| abeni | [2] | Integrated Development Environment for Gentoo Linux ebuilds |
| ebuilder | [3](down) | Package Builder for Gentoo Linux |
| envtest | | This ebuild display the environment for an ebuild. It's for portage-testing purposes only and will _always_ fail. |
| eix | [4] | A replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index plus a lot of other features |
| epm | [5] | rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux |
| esearch | [6] | Replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index |
| flagedit | [7] | CLI use flags and keyword editor |
| genflags | [8] | Gentoo CFLAGS generator- host2flags, info2flags, info2host
|
| genlop | [9] | A nice emerge.log parser |
| gentoo-stats | [10] | Gentoo Linux usage statistics client daemon |
| gentoolkit | [11] [12] | Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo |
| gentoolkit-dev | [13] | Collection of developer scripts for Gentoo |
| kuroo | [14] | A KDE Portage frontend |
| kentoo | [15](down) | KDE Portage frontend |
| metagen | [16] | metadata.xml generator for ebuilds |
| mirrorselect | [17] | Tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo |
| portage-utils | | Small and fast portage helper tools written in C |
| portage-prefpane | [18] | A Preference-Pane for Mac OS X to configure portage |
| portagemaster | [19] | A java portage browser and installer |
| porthole | [20] | A GTK+-based frontend to Portage |
| profuse | | use flags and profile gtk2 editor, with good features |
| splat | [21] | Simple Portage Log Analyzer Tool |
| ufed | [22] | USE Flags editor for the command line |
Not in Portage
Until i provide this list you can refer to this thread on the Gentoo Forum.
After some cleaning I will also contacted its author and ask him if he wouldn't rather help me with this list
Packages by purpose
Installation
Search
| Name | Homepage | Description |
|---|
| eix | [23] | A replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index plus alot of other features |
| esearch | [24] | Replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index |
Frontend
Development
IDE
| Name | Homepage | Description |
|---|
| abeni | [29] | Integrated Development Environment for Gentoo Linux ebuilds |
Commandline
| Name | Homepage | Description |
|---|
| ebuilder | [30](down) | Package Builder for Gentoo Linux |
Also see
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Wiki
Other sources
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