Bug wranglers (and other people who want to know the herd and a maintainer of a package) currently have to find the metadata.xml file of the package in question. This requires us to type out `cat /usr/portage/CATEGORY/PACKAGE/metadata.xml` or write some workaround script. However, since eix already reads out that file as far as I am aware of, it might be handy if eix could optionally print out herd and maintainer info as well. This would make displaying the herd and maintainer something as simple as `eix -M PACKAGE` with clean human output and bug wranglers can then change it to display by default by adjusting their .eixrc. It might be that I'm missing out on some existing way to do this, so please let me know if that is the case.
(In reply to comment #0) > However, since eix already reads out that file No, eix does never read metadata.xml. It gets all information about the available packages only from portage's metadata which can be found in /usr/portage/metadata/{,md5-}cache
If anyone comes across this, it appears there's `equery m PACKAGE`. :D
