Hi guys,

often it would be nice to know more about users systems when trying to fix 
bugs and stuff so I thought it would be handy to have a tool similar to 
`emerge --info` that gathers all relevant data so that the user can attach 
it's output to the bugreport if needed.
What do you think? Wouldn't it be handy to have such a tool available in the 
default distribution of our perl-package?

That's what it says about my notebook e.g.:

$ ./perl-info

 perl-info version 0.10 - brought to you by the Gentoo 
perl-herd-maintainer ;-)
                          Distributed under the terms of the GPL-2

 * Perl   : dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2
 * libperl: sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1

 * INC:
   /etc/perl
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
   /usr/local/lib/site_perl
   .

 * Installed packages:
   dev-perl/AppConfig-1.56-r2
   dev-perl/Archive-Tar-1.28
   dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.16
   dev-perl/Compress-Zlib-1.41
   dev-perl/Config-IniFiles-2.38
   dev-perl/Crypt-Blowfish-2.10
   dev-perl/Crypt-DES-2.05
   dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51
   dev-perl/Curses-1.13
   dev-perl/CursesWidgets-1.997
   dev-perl/DBD-Pg-1.49
   dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007
   dev-perl/DBI-1.50
   dev-perl/DateManip-5.44
   dev-perl/DelimMatch-1.06
   dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1
   dev-perl/Digest-SHA-5.43
   dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.11
   dev-perl/Email-Valid-0.15-r1
   dev-perl/Exporter-Cluster-0.31
   dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.15
   dev-perl/File-BaseDir-0.02
   dev-perl/GD-2.30
   dev-perl/GD-Graph3d-0.63
   dev-perl/GDGraph-1.43
   dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.86
   dev-perl/HTML-Element-Extended-1.16
   dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.48
   dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.10
   dev-perl/HTML-Template-2.8
   dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01
   dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-0.97
   dev-perl/IO-String-1.08
   dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04
   dev-perl/IO-stringy-2.110
   dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05
   dev-perl/Log-Agent-0.307
   dev-perl/MIME-Lite-3.01
   dev-perl/MIME-Types-1.17
   dev-perl/Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1
   dev-perl/MailTools-1.67
   dev-perl/Net-CIDR-Lite-0.18
   dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.53-r1
   dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.38
   dev-perl/Net-Domain-TLD-1.62
   dev-perl/Net-IP-1.24
   dev-perl/Net-SNMP-5.2.0
   dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25
   dev-perl/Nmap-Parser-1.05
   dev-perl/OLE-StorageLite-0.14
   dev-perl/PDF-API2-0.51
   dev-perl/PDF-Create-0.06.1b
   dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.94
   dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018
   dev-perl/Pod-Escapes-1.04
   dev-perl/Pod-Simple-3.04
   dev-perl/Proc-ProcessTable-0.39
   dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r5
   dev-perl/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2603
   dev-perl/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.17-r1
   dev-perl/Sub-Uplevel-0.13
   dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.2
   dev-perl/Template-DBI-2.64
   dev-perl/Template-GD-2.66
   dev-perl/Template-Latex-2.17
   dev-perl/Template-Toolkit-2.15-r1
   dev-perl/Template-XML-2.16-r1
   dev-perl/Term-ANSIColor-1.11
   dev-perl/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203
   dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.30
   dev-perl/Test-Exception-0.21
   dev-perl/Test-LongString-0.09
   dev-perl/Test-Manifest-1.14
   dev-perl/Test-Pod-1.24
   dev-perl/Text-Iconv-1.4
   dev-perl/Text-Tabs+Wrap-2006.0711
   dev-perl/Tie-IxHash-1.21-r1
   dev-perl/URI-1.35
   dev-perl/XML-DOM-1.44
   dev-perl/XML-Dumper-0.81
   dev-perl/XML-Filter-BufferText-1.01
   dev-perl/XML-Handler-YAWriter-0.23-r1
   dev-perl/XML-LibXML-1.58-r1
   dev-perl/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13
   dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09
   dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34
   dev-perl/XML-RSS-1.05
   dev-perl/XML-RegExp-0.03-r1
   dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.14-r1
   dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.04
   dev-perl/XML-SAX-Writer-0.44-r1
   dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.14
   dev-perl/XML-Twig-3.26
   dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.600
   dev-perl/XML-XPath-1.13
   dev-perl/crypt-cbc-2.17
   dev-perl/extutils-depends-0.205
   dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.15
   dev-perl/extutils-pkgconfig-1.07
   dev-perl/glib-perl-1.105
   dev-perl/gtk2-perl-1.102
   dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.803-r1
   dev-perl/libxml-perl-0.08
   dev-perl/module-build-0.28
   dev-perl/perl-tk-804.027
   dev-perl/sdl-perl-1.20.3-r1
   dev-perl/text-autoformat-1.12
   dev-perl/text-reform-1.11
   dev-perl/yaml-0.39
   perl-core/CGI-3.15
   perl-core/PodParser-1.32
   perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.18
   perl-core/Storable-2.15
   perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56
   perl-core/Test-Simple-0.62
   perl-core/Text-Balanced-1.95
   perl-core/digest-base-1.13

 * eclasses:
   perl-app: 1.9
   perl-module: 1.102
   perl-post: 1.16

(Hey it's just a quick hack.. but wanted to hear your thoughts..)

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