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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>dev-tools</herd>
+<maintainer>
+    <email>nerdboy@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Steve Arnold</name>
+</maintainer>
+<longdescription>Doxygen is a tool for analyzing, documenting, and reverse-engineering 
+    source code of various languages using a variety of output formats 
+    (try it and see).  Doxygen supports C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, 
+    IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D,
+    as well as other languages (using additional helper tools).
+</longdescription>
+<use>
+	<flag name='nodot'>removes graphviz dependency, along with dot graphs</flag>
+</use>
+</pkgmetadata>