Created attachment 398120 [details] Ebuild for package EDID decoding utility. The portage provided read-edid does not properly parse all the information that EDID contains. This tools hosted under X.org does the job properly and is the default tool used with linux kernel in Documentation/EDID when working with EDID firmware and KMS. This ebuild uses git to clone the current branch of edid-decode. This is a small but usefull utility and should not take too much time to maintain. If there is nobody to maintain it I am willing to maintain the package. Ebuild attached.
If/when upstream decides to make a release, it will have a better chance at getting included in Gentoo.
One thing I like about gentoo is that the versatility of the packages is very large. That way people have ability to select the software they wish to use for the job they are doing. Ok, the audience for working with EDID is quite small... An average user doesn't have much interest in reading EDID. Currently the portage hold's 2211 live ebuilds. Is it in your strategy that you wish to limit or reduce the amount of live ebuilds? This could also be implemented as a pre release snapshot if it has that way a better chance of finding it's way into portage. The program is in a quite stable state. It has had only 10-20 commits over the few years, except for the last year it only had one. So not too much work is needed for maintaining the package.
Please just build the trivial little tool manually.
