<quote> Probably the best known panoramic image stitching software, PanoTools is in fact a highly versatile set of tools/plugins for manipulating all kinds of imagery, not just for stitching. </quote>
Actually, hugin is probably a front-end to it. Changing that package description might be enough for fooled users. ;-)
I'm pretty sure we have already got this in Portage, as media-libs/libpano13.
Do not know what was the situation in 2008 but how about moving media-libs/libpano13 to media-gfx/ at least? The name is just misleading I wouldn't expect media-libs/ to provide front-end binaries. Thanks. # equery files media-libs/libpano13 * Searching for libpano13 in media-libs ... * Contents of media-libs/libpano13-2.9.19: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/PTAInterpolate /usr/bin/PTblender /usr/bin/PTcrop /usr/bin/PTinfo /usr/bin/PTmasker /usr/bin/PTmender /usr/bin/PToptimizer /usr/bin/PTroller /usr/bin/PTtiff2psd /usr/bin/PTtiffdump /usr/bin/PTuncrop /usr/bin/panoinfo /usr/include /usr/include/pano13 /usr/include/pano13/PTcommon.h /usr/include/pano13/file.h /usr/include/pano13/filter.h /usr/include/pano13/panorama.h /usr/include/pano13/panotypes.h /usr/include/pano13/pt_stdint.h /usr/include/pano13/pteditor.h /usr/include/pano13/ptutils.h /usr/include/pano13/queryfeature.h /usr/include/pano13/version.h /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libpano13.so -> libpano13.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib64/libpano13.so.3 -> libpano13.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib64/libpano13.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib64/pkgconfig /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libpano13.pc /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/AUTHORS.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/NEWS.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/Optimize.txt.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/README.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/README.linux.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/developmentPolicy.txt.bz2 /usr/share/doc/libpano13-2.9.19/stitch.txt.bz2 /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/PTAInterpolate.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTblender.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTcrop.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTinfo.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTmasker.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTmender.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PToptimizer.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTroller.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTtiff2psd.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTtiffdump.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/PTuncrop.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/panoinfo.1.bz2 #