Epkginfo

epkginfo is a tool used to display package metadata information. It is a shortcut to using the command.

Emerge
comes as part of the Gentoolkit suite. It, along with the rest of the tools, can be installed by running:

Please see the Gentoolkit article for information on the other tools included in the package.

Invocation
As mentioned above can be invoked two different ways:


 * epkginfo
 * equery meta

Using the shorter method: