app-admin
app-arch
app-arch / tar : Use this to make tarballs :)
- just install `tar`
app-backup
app-backup / amanda : The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
app-crypt
app-crypt / ekeyd : Entropy Key userspace daemon
- Only install the ekey-egd-linux service rather than the full ekeyd package.
app-editors
app-editors / nano : GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality
- Disable all fancy features, including ones that otherwise have a dedicated USE flag (such as spelling).
app-editors / vim : Vim, an improved vi-style text editor
app-editors / vim-core : vim and gvim shared files
app-misc
app-misc / unfoo : A simple bash driven frontend to simplify decompression of files
- Do not install all support archive binaries
app-office
app-office / scribus : Desktop publishing (DTP) and layout program
- Don't install headers (only required for e.g. plug-in developers)
app-text
app-text / dictd : Dictionary Client/Server for the DICT protocol
- Don't build server but dict client, dictzip and dictfmt only.
app-text / discount : A Markdown-to HTML translator written in C
dev-db
dev-db / unixODBC : complete ODBC driver manager
- Disable bundled drivers and extra libraries (most users don't need these)
dev-embedded
dev-embedded / usbprog : flashtool for the multi purpose programming adapter usbprog
dev-lang
dev-lang / R : Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics
dev-lang / lazarus : Lazarus IDE is a feature rich visual programming environment emulating Delphi
- Don't build extra packages from the bigide component
dev-lang / mono : Mono runtime and class libraries, a C# compiler/interpreter
dev-lang / perl : Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
dev-lang / spidermonkey : SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C and C++
dev-lang / swi-prolog : Versatile implementation of the Prolog programming language
dev-libs
dev-libs / libcdio : A library to encapsulate CD-ROM reading and control
- Only build the libcdio library and little more, just to be used to link against from multimedia players. With this USE flag enabled, none of the command-line utilities are built, nor is the CDDA library.
dev-libs / libsodium : A portable fork of NaCl, a higher-level cryptographic library
dev-perl
dev-perl / Alien-Build : Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
dev-perl / App-Cmd : Write command line apps with less suffering
dev-perl / B-Debug : Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
dev-perl / Bytes-Random-Secure : extension to generate cryptographically-secure random bytes
dev-perl / CGI-Application : Framework for building reusable web-applications
dev-perl / CPAN-Uploader : upload things to the CPAN
dev-perl / Calendar-Simple : Perl extension to create simple calendars
dev-perl / Class-Tiny : Minimalist class construction
dev-perl / Color-Calc : Simple calculations with RGB colors
dev-perl / Config-INI : simple .ini-file format
dev-perl / Config-MVP : multivalue-property package-oriented configuration
dev-perl / Crypt-PWSafe3 : Read and write Passwordsafe v3 files
dev-perl / Crypt-SMIME : S/MIME message signing, verification, encryption and decryption
dev-perl / CryptX : Self-contained crypto toolkit
dev-perl / Cwd-Guard : Temporary changing working directory (chdir)
dev-perl / DBD-MariaDB : MariaDB and MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
dev-perl / DBI-Shell : Interactive command shell for the DBI
dev-perl / DBIx-Simple : Very complete easy-to-use OO interface to DBI
dev-perl / DateTime-Format-Builder : Create DateTime parser classes and objects
dev-perl / Devel-Cover : Code coverage metrics for Perl
dev-perl / Devel-FindPerl : Find the path to your perl
dev-perl / Dist-Zilla : Distribution builder; installer not included!
dev-perl / Eval-Closure : safely and cleanly create closures via string eval
dev-perl / Expect : Expect for Perl
dev-perl / File-ShareDir : Locate per-dist and per-module shared files
dev-perl / File-ShareDir-ProjectDistDir : Simple set-and-forget using of a '/share' directory in your projects root
dev-perl / Getopt-Long-Descriptive : Getopt::Long with usage text
dev-perl / HTTP-CookieJar : A minimalist HTTP user agent cookie jar
dev-perl / JSON-RPC : JSON RPC 2.0 Server Implementation
dev-perl / Log-Any : Bringing loggers and listeners together
dev-perl / Log-Dispatchouli : a simple wrapper around Log::Dispatch
dev-perl / MIME-Lite : Low-calorie MIME generator
dev-perl / Mail-DMARC : Perl implementation of DMARC
dev-perl / Mail-Sender : Module for sending mails with attachments through an SMTP server
dev-perl / Math-ModInt : modular integer arithmetic
dev-perl / Math-Random-ISAAC-XS : C implementation of the ISAAC PRNG algorithm
dev-perl / Mixin-Linewise : write your linewise code for handles; this does the rest
dev-perl / Mojolicious : Real-time web framework
dev-perl / MooseX-LazyRequire : Required attributes which fail only when trying to use them
dev-perl / MooseX-OneArgNew : teach ->new to accept single, non-hashref arguments
dev-perl / MooseX-Types-Path-Class : A Path::Class type library for Moose
dev-perl / Net-DNS : Perl Interface to the Domain Name System
dev-perl / Net-HTTP : Low-level HTTP connection (client)
dev-perl / Net-Netmask : Parse, manipulate and lookup IP network blocks
dev-perl / Net-OpenSSH : Net::OpenSSH, Perl wrapper for OpenSSH secure shell client
dev-perl / Net-SNMP : A SNMP Perl Module
dev-perl / Net-SSH-Perl : Perl client Interface to SSH
dev-perl / Net-SSLeay : Perl extension for using OpenSSL
dev-perl / POSIX-strftime-Compiler : GNU C library compatible strftime for loggers and servers
dev-perl / Package-Stash : Routines for manipulating stashes
dev-perl / Pango : Layout and render international text
dev-perl / Parallel-ForkManager : A simple parallel processing fork manager
dev-perl / Path-FindDev : Find a development path somewhere in an upper hierarchy
dev-perl / Path-IsDev : Determine if a given Path resembles a development source tree
dev-perl / Path-Tiny : File path utility
dev-perl / Perl-Critic : Critique Perl source code for best-practices
dev-perl / Perl-PrereqScanner : a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites
dev-perl / Perl-Tags : Generate (possibly exuberant) Ctags style tags for Perl sourcecode
dev-perl / Plack : Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
dev-perl / Pod-Markdown : Convert POD to Markdown
dev-perl / Pod-Readme : Intelligently generate a README file from POD
dev-perl / Pod-Spell : A formatter for spellchecking Pod
dev-perl / Proc-Daemon : Run Perl program as a daemon process
dev-perl / Redis : Perl binding for Redis database
dev-perl / RedisDB : Perl extension to access redis database
dev-perl / SQL-Statement : Small SQL parser and engine
dev-perl / Signal-Mask : Signal masks made easy
dev-perl / Specio : Type constraints and coercions for Perl
dev-perl / Sub-Quote : Efficient generation of subroutines via string eval
dev-perl / Test-CleanNamespaces : Check for uncleaned imports
dev-perl / Test-Compile : Check whether Perl files compile correctly
dev-perl / Test-MockRandom : Replaces random number generation with non-random number generation
dev-perl / Test-Number-Delta : Compare the difference between numbers against a given tolerance
dev-perl / Text-Soundex : Implementation of the soundex algorithm
dev-perl / Text-Wrapper : Word wrap text by breaking long lines
dev-perl / Tree-Simple : A simple tree object
dev-perl / Try-Tiny : Minimal try/catch with proper localization of $@
dev-perl / Type-Tie : Tie a variable to a type constraint
dev-perl / Type-Tiny : tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
dev-perl / Type-Tiny-XS : provides an XS boost for some of Type::Tiny's built-in type constraints
dev-perl / XML-Entities : Decode strings with XML entities
dev-perl / XML-Feed : Syndication feed parser and auto-discovery
dev-perl / XML-LibXML : Perl binding for libxml2
dev-perl / XML-Parser-Lite : Lightweight regexp-based XML parser
dev-perl / XML-RSS-LibXML : XML::RSS with XML::LibXML
dev-perl / YAML-Tiny : Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible
dev-perl / libintl-perl : High-Level Interface to Uniforum Message Translation
dev-perl / strictures : Turn on strict and make most warnings fatal
dev-php
dev-php / PEAR-DB_DataObject : SQL builder and data modeling layer
dev-php / PEAR-File_Archive : Easily manipulate archives in PHP
dev-php / PEAR-HTML_CSS : Provides a simple interface for generating a stylesheet declaration
dev-php / PEAR-HTML_Template_Flexy : An extremely powerful Tokenizer driven Template engine
dev-php / PEAR-HTTP_Session2 : Wraps PHP's session functions providing extras like db storage for session data
dev-php / PEAR-PHP_Debug : Provides traces, timings, executed queries, watched variables etc.
dev-php / PEAR-Text_CAPTCHA : Generation of CAPTCHAs
dev-php / PEAR-Validate : Validation class
dev-php / phing : PHP project build system based on Apache Ant
dev-python
dev-python / pandas : Powerful data structures for data analysis and statistics
dev-scheme
dev-scheme / racket : General purpose, multi-paradigm Lisp-Scheme programming language
dev-util
dev-util / dialog : Tool to display dialog boxes from a shell
- Disable library, install command-line program only
dev-util / google-perftools : Fast, multi-threaded malloc() and nifty performance analysis tools
- Only build the tcmalloc_minimal library, ignoring the heap checker and the profilers.
games-board
games-board / pysolfc : Exciting collection of more than 1000 solitaire card games
games-simulation
games-simulation / simutrans : A free Transport Tycoon clone
- Don't install any PakSets (scenario data)
lxqt-base
lxqt-base / lxqt-meta : Meta ebuild for LXQt, the Lightweight Desktop Environment
- Do not install x11-wm/openboxwindow manager
media-gfx
media-gfx / iscan-plugin-gt-f500 : Epson Perfection 2480/2580 PHOTO scanner plugin for SANE 'epkowa' backend
- Install the firmware only, and not the plugin.
media-gfx / meshlab : A system for processing and editing unstructured 3D triangular meshes
media-libs
media-libs / libsndfile : C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound
media-sound
media-sound / guayadeque : Music management program designed for all music enthusiasts
net-analyzer
net-analyzer / icinga2 : Distributed, general purpose, network monitoring engine
net-analyzer / munin : Munin Server Monitoring Tool
- Only install munin-node and its plugins. This excludes the scripts to generate the web pages and the graphs.
net-analyzer / net-snmp : Software for generating and retrieving SNMP data
net-analyzer / nsca : Nagios Service Check Acceptor
- Only build and install the send_nsca command and not the daemon. This allows a very minimal install with no overhead when setting up a node.
net-im
net-im / ekg2 : Text-based, multi-protocol instant messenger
- Disable building extra plugins with no additional deps.
net-libs
net-libs / ortp : Open Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP, RFC3550) stack
net-misc
net-misc / dropbear : Small SSH 2 client/server designed for small memory environments
net-misc / ytfzf : Posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal
- Skip app-shells/fzf and media-video/mpv dependencies (requires custom settings)
net-nds
net-nds / openldap : LDAP suite of application and development tools
- Build libraries & userspace tools only. Does not install any server code
net-p2p
net-p2p / eiskaltdcpp : Qt/DC++ based client for DirectConnect and ADC protocols
- Don't install headers
net-print
net-print / hplip : HP Linux Imaging and Printing - Print, scan, fax drivers and service tools
- Only build internal hpijs/hpcups driver (not recommended at all, make sure you know what you are doing)
net-wireless
net-wireless / dump1090 : simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices
- Exclude all HTML/webserver extras for a tiny build, e.g. to export data only
sci-biology
sci-biology / aaindex : Amino acid indices and similarity matrices
sci-biology / bioperl : Perl tools for bioinformatics - Core modules
sci-biology / bioperl-run : Perl wrapper modules for key bioinformatics applications
sci-biology / cutg : Codon usage tables calculated from GenBank
sci-biology / emboss : The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite - A sequence analysis package
sci-biology / prints : A protein motif fingerprint database
sci-biology / prosite : A protein families and domains database
sci-biology / rebase : A restriction enzyme database
sci-biology / transfac : A database of eucaryotic transcription factors
sci-chemistry
sci-chemistry / openbabel : Interconverts file formats used in molecular modeling
sci-electronics
sci-electronics / kicad-meta : Electronic Schematic and PCB design tools (meta package)
- Do not install extra data like 3D packages and templates.
sci-electronics / labone : Platform independent instrument control for Zurich Instruments devices
sci-mathematics
sci-mathematics / eclib : Programs for elliptic curves defined over the rational numbers
- Build only the "mwrank" program.
sci-visualization
sci-visualization / ggobi : Visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data
sec-policy
sec-policy / apparmor-profiles : A collection of profiles for the AppArmor application security system
sys-apps
sys-apps / fwupd : Aims to make updating firmware on Linux automatic, safe and reliable
sys-apps / iproute2 : kernel routing and traffic control utilities
- only install ip and tc programs, without eBPF support
sys-auth
sys-auth / pambase : PAM base configuration files
- Disables the standard PAM modules that provide extra information to users on login; this includes pam_lastlog, pam_motd, pam_mail and other similar modules. This might not be a good idea on a multi-user system but could reduce slightly the overhead on single-user non-networked systems.
sys-boot
sys-boot / lilo : LInux LOader, the original Linux bootloader
- Do not install the dolilo helper script
sys-boot / vboot-utils : Chrome OS verified boot tools
sys-boot / woeusb : Creates windows installer on usb media from an iso image
sys-cluster
sys-cluster / ganglia : A scalable distributed monitoring system for clusters and grids
sys-fs
sys-fs / zfs : Userland utilities for ZFS Linux kernel module
- Don't install python scripts (arcstat, dbufstat etc) and avoid dependency on dev-lang/python
sys-libs
sys-libs / musl-nscd : musl-nscd is an implementation of the NSCD protocol for the musl libc
- Only installs the header files
virtual
virtual / ssh : Virtual for SSH client and server
- Prefer net-misc/dropbear over net-misc/openssh
www-apps
www-apps / ikiwiki : A wiki compiler
www-apps / nanoc : nanoc is a simple but very flexible static site generator written in Ruby
www-apps / nanoc-cli : nanoc is a simple but very flexible static site generator written in Ruby
www-apps / nanoc-core : nanoc is a simple but very flexible static site generator written in Ruby
www-apps / nanoc-spec : Provides Nanoc::Spec, containing functionality for writing tests for Nanoc
www-servers
www-servers / lighttpd : Lightweight high-performance web server
x11-base
x11-base / xorg-server : X.Org X servers
x11-misc
x11-misc / notify-osd : Canonical's on-screen-display notification agent
x11-misc / py3status : py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper written in python
- Don't depend on x11-misc/i3status if you don't plan to use any of its built-in modules.
x11-themes
x11-themes / mate-icon-theme-faenza : Faenza icon theme, that was adapted for MATE desktop
x11-themes / tangerine-icon-theme : a derivative of the standard Tango theme, using a more orange approach
x11-themes / tango-icon-theme : SVG and PNG icon theme from the Tango project
x11-wm
x11-wm / xpra : X Persistent Remote Apps (xpra) and Partitioning WM (parti) based on wimpiggy
xfce-base
xfce-base / xfce4-meta : The Xfce Desktop Environment (meta package)