qview

A terminal dashboard for exploring and inspecting a Gentoo system using Portage metadata.

Built with Rust and Ratatui.

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Features

• Browse installed Gentoo packages
• Inspect package metadata
  • Version
  • Repository
  • Maintainer
  • License
  • Homepage
  • Installed size
• View package USE flags
  • Enabled flags
  • Default flags
• Search installed packages
• Dashboard overview
  • Installed package count
  • World package count
  • Installed size

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Screenshots

Ui changes kind of frequently right now, take these with a grain of salt

Dashboard

Installed Packages View

Search Popup

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Installation

Gentoo (via guru overlay)

qview is available as an ebuild in the official Gentoo guru overlay.

Install with:

emerge app-misc/qview

Build from source

Requirements:

• Rust (stable)
• Cargo
• Gentoo Linux

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Pablu23/qview
cd qview

Build:

cargo build --release

Run:

./target/release/qview

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Development Environment

This repository includes a flake.nix for development environments.

The flake is intended for:

• dependency management
• reproducible development shells
• editor tooling

It is not currently used for building or packaging qview itself.

Enter the development shell with:

nix develop

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Roadmap

The project is still early in development. Planned features include:

• Public guru ebuild
• Portage package search/browser
  • Nicer loading screen
• Improved information in package metadata
  • RDEPEND
  • BDEPEND
  • SLOT
  • Keywords
  • New version available?
• Filtering installed packages
  • World packages
  • Explicitly installed packages
  • Repository filters
  • USE flag filters
• Better package USE Flag rendering
• Improved dashboard statistics
• Portage news reader
• Search improvements
• Sorting options
• Async package metadata loading
• Logging
• Reading ebuild files directly instead of using pre-computed

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Motivation

qview exists to provide a lightweight terminal interface for exploring Gentoo package information without repeatedly invoking multiple Portage utilities manually.

The focus is:

• fast navigation
• clean terminal UX
• useful metadata presentation
• native Gentoo integration

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License

MIT License

Copyright 2026 Pablu

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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