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2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <maintainer type="project">
5 <email>graphics@gentoo.org</email>
6 <name>Gentoo Graphics Project</name>
9 graphviz is a set of graph drawing tools for Unix or MS-Windows
10 (win32), including a web service interface (webdot). Source code and
11 binary executables for common platforms are available. Graph drawing
12 addresses the problem of visualizing structural information by
13 constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks.
14 Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key
15 technologies such as database design, software engineering, VLSI and
16 network design and visual interfaces in other domains. Situations where
17 these tools might be particularly useful include:
19 * you would like to restructure a program and first need to
20 understand the relationships between its types, procedures, and source
22 * you need to find the bottlenecks in an Internet backbone - not
23 only individual links, but their relationships
24 * you're debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a
25 finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain error state arises
26 * you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or
27 distributed program represented pictorially
28 * you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked
30 * you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in
31 a database of telephone calls or e-mail messages
34 <flag name="devil">Enables DevIL output plugin -Tdevil</flag>
35 <flag name="gdk-pixbuf">Enables gdk-pixbuf2 plugin</flag>
36 <flag name="gtk">Enables gtk+ output plugin -Tgtk (needs cairo)</flag>
37 <flag name="gts">Enables support for gts</flag>
38 <flag name="lasi">Enables PostScript output via <pkg>media-libs/lasi</pkg>, for plugin -Tlasi (needs cairo)</flag>
39 <flag name="X">Builds lefty front-end, builds plugin -Txlib, and enables support for x11 in various other modules (needs cairo)</flag>