It would be nice if eix could be used to find out who is the maintainer of a given package. new output: $ eix -e <cat/pkg> [I] <cat/pkg> Available versions: ... Homepage: ... Description: ... Maintainer: <first maintainer> <other maintainers and herds> The format should be the same as emerge puts in the build.log for easy pasting into bugzilla. That is it should list the primary maintainer's email first and separated by a white space, a comma separated list of the emails of the secondary maintainers*. Thanks for considering. * If there is at least one maintainer, the first maintainer is the primary maintainer. If there is no maintainer, the first herd is the primary maintainer. The portage code for the output can be found in pym/portage/xml/metadata.py:format_maintainer_string().
The maintainer information is not part of the "standard" ebuild metadata information, i.e. of the data stored in /usr/portage/metadata/cache. Using other information like the maintainer information stored in metadata.xml would require a completely different handling in eix, for instance several cache methods won't work anymore. (BTW: Parsing of xml-files is also not implemented in eix, either). Since it would require almost a complete rewrite of eix (and would end in a program which implements things fundamentally different, not necessarilyy better) I close this bug as CANTFIX.
