raiagent

Welcome to raiagent, the third-party Gentoo overlay where Raia and gentlemanly conduct collide.

raiagent

Motivation

raiagent publishes well-documented ebuilds unabashedly biased toward technological self-empowerment.¹

^{1. We actually believe most of the specious doggerel tastelessly defibrillating this sentence.}

Notable command-line interface (CLI) ebuilds include:

Powerline, a general-purpose CLI statusline theme with cross-application support (e.g., bash, tmux, vim, zsh). raiagent officially hosts Powerline ebuilds, co-maintained by a frequent Powerline committer.
fishman's exuberant-ctags fork, an actively maintained ctags variant with modern language support (e.g., CSS, Objective-C). raiagent unofficially hosts live ctags ebuilds in lieu of an official release.

Notable peer-to-peer (P2P) ebuilds include:

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), an anonymous peer-to-peer communication layer colloquially referred to as a "darknet." (Think Tor hidden services on illict performance-enhancing stimulants.) To safeguard users against deanonymization attacks specific to obsolete I2P releases, raiagent unofficially hosts 0-day I2P ebuilds (i.e., ebuilds ideally updated the same day as official I2P updates). For quality assurance, our ebuilds are routinely synchronized against Portage's older I2P ebuilds.

Notable Python-centric ebuilds include:

PyInstaller's Python 3 branch, a cross-platform Python freezing utility. raiagent unofficially hosts PyInstaller ebuilds, as well as frequently committing to the official PyInstaller codebase.

Notable ricing (i.e., soft- and/or hardware performance tweaking) ebuilds include:

phc-k8, an out-of-tree Linux kernel module supporting undervolting of AMD chipsets. Portage's official phc-k8 ebuilds are several years out-of-date and, unsurprisingly, fail to build against modern Linux kernels. raiagent unofficially hosts well-maintained phc-k8 ebuilds successfully building against all stable gentoo-sources kernels, complete with user-configurable OpenRC startup script and configuration file.

Notable roguelike (i.e., games featuring permanent death as a prominent mechanic) ebuilds include:

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (C:DDA), a post-apocalyptic survival horror roguelike. raiagent officially hosts C:DDA ebuilds.
UnReal World (URW), a Finnish Iron-Age wilderness survival roguelike. raiagent unofficially hosts URW ebuilds.

raiagent is installable in the usual way. Assuming use of emerge (and not that other disreputable fellow), this is:

Install layman, Gentoo's official overlay manager.

  $ emerge layman
  $ echo 'source /var/lib/layman/make.conf' >> /etc/portage/make.conf

raiagent is thanks to the concerted efforts of numerous committers and issue reporters – especially:

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX-I), whose gracious contributions to the suite of Powerline ebuilds has been unutterably invaluable. Thanks, Nikolai. Your Sisyphean efforts will not go unremembered.