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| <!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> |
