media-gfx/graphviz/metadata.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<herd>graphics</herd>
<longdescription>
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
</longdescription>
<use>
	<flag name='lasi'>
		Enables PostScript output via <pkg>media-libs/lasi</pkg> library
	</flag>
</use>
</pkgmetadata>