X-Git-Url: https://git.friedersdorff.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=media-gfx%2Fgraphviz%2Fmetadata.xml;fp=media-gfx%2Fgraphviz%2Fmetadata.xml;h=8d0090a0b02bc8b73b07521fa42516355e83a050;hb=b80e6e7fcba052d943ad536289a021797b848778;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=c501ccbb3051758b205d954fd0f1e5ea445cc9a4;p=max%2Fgentoo-overlay.git diff --git a/media-gfx/graphviz/metadata.xml b/media-gfx/graphviz/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d0090a --- /dev/null +++ b/media-gfx/graphviz/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ + + + + + graphics@gentoo.org + Gentoo Graphics Project + + + graphviz is a set of graph drawing tools for Unix or MS-Windows + (win32), including a web service interface (webdot). Source code and + binary executables for common platforms are available. Graph drawing + addresses the problem of visualizing structural information by + constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks. + Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key + technologies such as database design, software engineering, VLSI and + network design and visual interfaces in other domains. Situations where + these tools might be particularly useful include: + + * you would like to restructure a program and first need to + understand the relationships between its types, procedures, and source + files. + * you need to find the bottlenecks in an Internet backbone - not + only individual links, but their relationships + * you're debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a + finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain error state arises + * you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or + distributed program represented pictorially + * you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked + documents + * you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in + a database of telephone calls or e-mail messages + + + Enables DevIL output plugin -Tdevil + Enables gdk-pixbuf2 plugin + Enables gtk+ output plugin -Tgtk (needs cairo) + Enables support for gts + Enables PostScript output via media-libs/lasi, for plugin -Tlasi (needs cairo) + Builds lefty front-end, builds plugin -Txlib, and enables support for x11 in various other modules (needs cairo) + +