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[edit] 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.
[edit] Packages by source
Commands which are part of a package but have a different name are listed below these packages.
[edit] Portage
[edit] sys-apps
| Name | Homepage | Description
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| portage | [1] | The Portage Package Management System (Similar to BSD's ports). The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo.
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[edit] app-portage
| Name | Homepage | Description
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| abeni | [2] | Integrated Development Environment for Gentoo Linux ebuilds
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| ebuilder | [3](down) | Package Builder for Gentoo Linux
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| envtest | | This ebuild display the environment for an ebuild. It's for portage-testing purposes only and will _always_ fail.
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| eix | [4] | A replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index plus a lot of other features
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| epm | [5] | rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux
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| esearch | [6] | Replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index
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| flagedit | [7] | CLI use flags and keyword editor
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| genflags | [8] | Gentoo CFLAGS generator
- host2flags, info2flags, info2host
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| genlop | [9] | A nice emerge.log parser
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| gentoo-stats | [10] | Gentoo Linux usage statistics client daemon
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| gentoolkit | [11] [12] | Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo
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| gentoolkit-dev | [13] | Collection of developer scripts for Gentoo
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| kuroo | [14] | A KDE Portage frontend
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| kentoo | [15](down) | KDE Portage frontend
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| metagen | [16] | metadata.xml generator for ebuilds
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| mirrorselect | [17] | Tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo
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| portage-utils | | Small and fast portage helper tools written in C
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| portage-prefpane | [18] | A Preference-Pane for Mac OS X to configure portage
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| portagemaster | [19] | A java portage browser and installer
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| porthole | [20] | A GTK+-based frontend to Portage
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| profuse | | use flags and profile gtk2 editor, with good features
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| splat | [21] | Simple Portage Log Analyzer Tool
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| ufed | [22] | USE Flags editor for the command line
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[edit] 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
[edit] Packages by purpose
[edit] Installation
[edit] Search
| Name | Homepage | Description
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| eix | [23] | A replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index plus alot of other features
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| esearch | [24] | Replacement for 'emerge search' with search-index
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[edit] Frontend
[edit] Development
| Name | Homepage | Description
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| abeni | [30] | Integrated Development Environment for Gentoo Linux ebuilds
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[edit] Commandline
| Name | Homepage | Description
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| ebuilder | [31](down) | Package Builder for Gentoo Linux
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[edit] Also see
[edit] Gentoo Linux
[edit] Gentoo Wiki
[edit] Other sources
