Add a metadata field to ebuilds to classify if the package provides an x-application (with a .desktop file), a library, a server... This extra information will make it easier to make frontends (ebuild) that interface nicely with users. Example: # emerge updage --noob Portage has these new packages for you to install: Gaim 1.4.0 Firefox 1.0.5 ...and 13 libraries that you wouldn't recognize if I told you what they were Continue [Y/n/?] This information will make new things possible for frontends, especially visual ones where it is easy to hide information that is not relevant to the user. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This would belong in metadata.xml which portage is not presently the authority on. There is currently nowhere to reassign this bug to though (200 people on a single alias doesn't get very far), so you'll need to open this for discussion on gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list.
