raiagent ——[ …it is possibly good ]——

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

+ = raiagent

Installation

raiagent is installable via the post-modern eselect repository module, superseding the antiquated layman command:

• Install the eselect repository module (if needed).

    $ emerge --ask app-eselect/eselect-repository
    $ mkdir -p /etc/portage/repos.conf
  

• Add and synchronize this overlay.

    $ eselect repository enable raiagent
    $ emerge --sync raiagent
  

• Prepare for Gentoo-based winnage.

Motivation

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

1. We actually believe most of the specious doggerel tastelessly defibrillating that sentence.

CLI

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.

Japan

Notable Japanese-centric ebuilds include:

• mangal, a low-level terminal user
  interface (TUI) for finding, fetching, and locally reading Japanese manga –
  complete with Vi[M]-like key bindings. raiagent unofficially hosts mangal
  ebuilds.

P2P

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

• ZeroNet, a peer-to-peer web hosting network
  brokered with demonetized BitCoin
  blockchain semantics distributed over the decentralized
  BitTorrent protocol complete with
  optional Tor-based traffic anonymization. Yeah. It's pretty special.
  raiagent officially hosts
  ZeroNet ebuilds. Tragically, ZeroNet is no longer actively
  maintained. Until
  someone sufficiently young and idealistic creates a well-maintained friendly
  fork supporting the modern Python ecosystem, we have no choice but to
  remove all traces of ZeroNet from ::raiagent.

Python

Notable Python ebuilds include:

• Pure-Python profilers, including:
  • tuna, a newer browser-based UI for
    visualizing files produced by deterministic Python profilers. Although
    comparable to SnakeViz, tuna output is more factual than SnakeViz output
    and thus recommended for modern profiling workflows. raiagent
    unofficially hosts tuna ebuilds.
• Pure-Python PEP-compliant build
  systems, including:
  • Hatch, the increasingly popular project
    management toolchain recently embraced by the Python Packaging Authority
    (PyPA). raiagent unofficially hosts Hatch ebuilds.
• Pure-Python PEP-compliant runtime
  type checkers, including:
  • beartype, the un🐻ably fast
    runtime type checker guaranteeing O(1) time complexity, coauthored by
    the author of this overlay. Unsurprisingly,
    raiagent officially hosts
    beartype ebuilds.
  • pyright, Microsoft's
    permissively licensed open-source static type checker. Due to its strong
    performance guarantees, pyright is typically the default static
    type-checking solution for Python in Interactive Development Environments
    (IDEs) as diverse as VSCode and Vim. raiagent unofficially hosts pyright
    ebuilds.
• Bluetooth Low Energy platform Agnostic Klient
  (BLEAK), a popular asyncio-based
  Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) framework with extensive platform-portable native
  support for both mobile and non-mobile app stacks. raiagent unofficially
  hosts BLEAK ebuilds.
• The full Kivy stack, including:
  • Kivy itself, a popular user interface (UI)
    framework with extensive platform-portable support for both desktop and
    mobile devices. Thanks to Portage sadly last-riting Kivy several years ago,
    raiagent officially hosts Kivy
    ebuilds.
  • KivyMD, an aesthetically pleasing
    suite of Google Material Design (MD)-compliant Kivy widgets. raiagent
    officially hosts KivyMD
    ebuilds.
  • Buildozer, Kivy's officially
    supported toolchain for cross-compiling self-contained executable apps.
    raiagent officially hosts Buildozer ebuilds and ebuilds for optional
    runtime dependencies of Buildozer targeting various platforms
    ebuilds–
    including:
    • python-for-android, a
      toolchain for cross-compiling self-contained executable apps as Android
      APKs and Android App Bundles (AABs).
• Streamlit, a popular web dashboarding framework
  oriented towards data science and machine learning. raiagent officially
  hosts Streamlit
  ebuilds.

(Micro|Circuit)Python

Notable MicroPython and/or CircuitPython ebuilds include:

• Remote CLI-based controllers, REPLs, and shells – including:
  • mpremote,
    MicroPython's official first-party remote controller that also
    transparently supports CircuitPython. raiagent unofficially hosts
    mpremote ebuilds.
  • rshell, a once-popular
    MicroPython-specific remote shell largely superseded by
    mpremote.
    Nonetheless, raiagent unofficially hosts rshell ebuilds.

Retro

Notable "enthusiast" ebuilds include:

• AntiMicroX, a cross-platform
  gamepad->{keyboard,mouse} GUI enabling gamepad support in arbitrary games
  lacking native gamepad support. raiagent unofficially hosts AntiMicroX
  ebuilds.
• Munt, a cross-platform software
  synthesiser emulating pre-GM Roland MIDI devices (e.g.,
  MT-32) commonly supported by
  MS-DOS-era games. raiagent unofficially hosts Munt ebuilds.
• VGMPlay, a cross-platform
  audio player and converter effectively emulating all sequenced video game
  sound chips and hence supporting all sequenced video game music – ever. As
  RetroArch is to game
  emulation, VGMPlay is to game audio emulation. raiagent unofficially hosts
  VGMPlay ebuilds.

Roguelike

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.
• The Slimy Lichmummy
  (TSL), a classic
  dungeon-crawling roguelike from the Golden Age of Roguelikes (GAOR).
• UnReal World (URW), a Finnish Iron-Age
  wilderness survival roguelike. raiagent unofficially
  hosts URW ebuilds.

Interactive Fiction (IF)

Notable interactive fiction (i.e., parser games featuring text-based control schemes) ebuilds include:

• Gargoyle (garglk), the ultimate back- and
  frontend GUI supporting most (but inevitably not all) works of interactive
  fiction authored over the past several decades. Whereas Portage and the
  equally awesome interactive-fiction
  overlay only host
  Gargoyle's nearly decade-old 2011.1
  release, raiagent unofficially
  hosts
  ebuilds for most modern Gargoyle releases.
• Seventh Sense, David
  Olsen's phenomenal back-
  and frontend GUI for Joe and Ben
  Dever's Lone
  Wolf franchise of
  80's-era high-fantasy roguelike gamebooks. raiagent unofficially hosts
  Seventh Sense ebuilds. USE flags include:
  • data (enabled by default): automatically downloads and installs all data
    needed to play Lone Wolf 1—18. Thanks to Joe's voluntary relinquishment
    of all prior copyright to Project
    Aon, these gamebooks are freely
    (as in both beer and speech) playable... for Sommerlund and the Kai!
  • editor (not enabled by default): enables Seventh Sense's in-game WYSIWG
    editor for modifying existing gamebooks and creating new gamebooks under
    the Lone Wolf system.

Science

Notable scientifical ebuilds include:

• BETSE (Bio Electric Tissue
  Simulation Engine), a cross-platform pure-Python CLI-based finite
  volume simulator for 2D computational multiphysics problems in the life
  sciences coauthored by the author of this
  overlay. Needless to say, raiagent officially
  hosts BETSE
  ebuilds.
• BETSEE (Bio Electric Tissue
  Simulation Engine Environment), a cross-platform pure-Python
  PySide2-based Qt 5 GUI for
  BETSE coauthored by the author of this
  overlay. Again, raiagent officially hosts
  BETSEE ebuilds.

Contributors

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
  immeasurably invaluable. Thanks, Nikolai. Your Sisyphean efforts will not go
  unremembered.

See Also

leycec, the principal maintainer of raiagent, actively contributes to various other first- and third-party Gentoo overlays – including:

• The official Qt overlay, notably the
  PySide2, PySide2-tools, and shiboken2 packages.
• stefan-gr's
  unofficial abendbrot overlay,
  emphasizing emulation frontends (e.g.,
  EmulationStation,
  RetroArch).