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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <herd>desktop-misc</herd>
+ <maintainer>
+ <email>xarthisius@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Kacper Kowalik</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+ i3status is a small program (about 1500 SLOC) for generating a status bar for
+ dzen2, xmobar or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by
+ issuing a very small number of system calls, as one generally wants to update
+ such a status line every second. This ensures that even under high load, your
+ status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging
+ your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.
+ </longdescription>
+ <use>
+ <flag name="filecaps">Linux capabilities library is required for i3status to be able to read net bandwith</flag>
+ </use>
+</pkgmetadata>