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diff --git a/net-libs/libnet/metadata.xml b/net-libs/libnet/metadata.xml index 20ce219711a2..1b4d4fba8d5e 100644 --- a/net-libs/libnet/metadata.xml +++ b/net-libs/libnet/metadata.xml @@ -2,4 +2,23 @@ <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <herd>no-herd</herd> +<maintainer> + <email>vapier@gentoo.org</email> +</maintainer> +<longdescription> +Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application +programmer to construct and inject network packets. It provides a +portable and simplified interface for low-level network packet +shaping, handling and injection. Libnet hides much of the tedium +of packet creation from the application programmer such as +multiplexing, buffer management, arcane packet header +information, byte-ordering, OS-dependent issues, and much more. +Libnet features portable packet creation interfaces at the IP +layer and link layer, as well as a host of supplementary and +complementary functionality. Using libnet, quick and simple +packet assembly applications can be whipped up with little +effort. With a bit more time, more complex programs can be +written (Traceroute and ping were easily rewritten using libnet +and libpcap). +</longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |