Himerge 0.30 (Default branch)
Himerge is a GUI for emerge (Gentoo’s Portage
system) written in Haskell using gtk2hs. The main
idea is to simplify browsing the entire portage
tree, and allow running the most basic and common
options from the emerge command. It also offers
several handy tools, like global and local use
flags browsers, inspired by UFED (the Gentoo Linux
USE flags editor). It also uses eix (a small
utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for
fast results) as a back-end command to show
package information in HTML/CSS format, so you can
access a package’s Web site for a quick glance.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Run privileged operations as a normal (authenticated) user. Command line arguments support added. Choose your favorite Web browser to open Web pages using the ‘–webrowser’ command line flag. Choose a different default repository from the command line with the new flag ‘–repo’. A more precise and stable way of killing processes has been added. There is cleaner and more stable code during file-system path resolution. Now the ‘emerge’ operations omit the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variable, avoiding any communication error between Himerge and such operations.