[gentoo-project] Shiny new stuff

[Patrick Lauer]

Hi All,

I've been thinking about the perceived lack of progress in Gentoo a bit. And 
somehow it doesn't fit - there are so many nice things. What I did notice 
though is a lack of communication. Sometimes you mention "Hey, would be great 
if we had X" on IRC and three people point you at different implementations 
of the thing you've been searching for the last three months.


Here's my challenge to you: Point out and describe the cool things that other 
people might not now. Small helper apps, overlays with crazy stuff, ricer 
patches and whatever else you can think of.

I can think of a few well known ones:

eix, the fast search tool for portage. Really shiny.
OpenRC - Awesome init system. It's deviously fast and makes Fedora look like a 
relict of the 70s
Layman - started as a small helper script, now gives access to around 3000 
ebuilds (or even more, I haven't counted them in a while)
Portage - with 2.2 on the horizon there are some neat features (like sets and 
obsoleting revdep-rebuild)

I'd really appreciate a few pointers at your pet projects, shiny new things 
and even half-baked ideas that are far from being usable. Just show us what 
is out there waiting to be polished, packaged and used by legions of happy 
users!

Thanks,

Patrick
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