On 2004-10-06 at 11:23 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> metadata fans might like this patch for emerge.
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/portage_misc/emerge-metadata-1.332.patch

You als might want to have a look at my eshowmaintainer I use for
bug-wrangling. It uses herds.xml to display herd email and maintainers
of the herd. You might need to adjust the location of the herds.xml.

You can call it with one or several packages on command line or call it
without arguments to start it in interactive mode.

Output looks like:

sven@luna ~ $ eshowmaintainer
> baselayout

sys-apps/baselayout
        Maintainer: azarah@gentoo.org
        Maintainer: agriffis@gentoo.org
        Herd: base-system
                eMail: base-system@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: azarah@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: agriffis@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: avenj@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: drobbins@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: gmsoft@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: kumba@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: lu_zero@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: pebenito@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: weeve@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: seemant@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: vapier@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: chainsaw@gentoo.org
                Maintainer: g2boojum@gentoo.org

>

http://dev.gentoo.org/~swegener/tools/eshowmaintainer

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Sven Wegener
Gentoo Developer
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