If you need multiple elements, such as two herds, use a comma to separate them. See EXAMPLES.
-e email-address
Package maintainer's email address
-n maintainer-name
Package maintainer's name (used with -e option)
-m
Uses ECHANGELOG_USER variable. Can be used instead of -e and -n
-d description
Description of maintainership (used with -e option)
-l long-description
Long description of package.
-o output-file
Write to <output-file> instead of ./metadata.xml
-f
Force overwrite of existing metadata
-v
Write to stdout as well as disk (default)
-q
Don't write to stdout
-Q
Don't write file to disk
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Creates metadata.xml in current directory with python as the herd
metagen -H python,wxwidgets
-l 'This package does a little of this and some o dat.'
Creates metadata in current directory with two herds and long description
metagen -e pythonhad@gentoo.org
-n 'Joe Blow' -d 'The voices in my head told me to maintain this package' -Q
herd='no-herd', maintainer email, maintainer name, description of maintainership, to stdout only
metagen -H net-p2p,python -e joblo@gentoo.org,floblo@gentoo.org
-n 'Jo Blo','Flo Blo' -d 'I am maintaining this because foo','I am maintaining this because bar' -l 'This package is yadda yadda yadda, spam and eggs' -Q
2 herds, 2 maintainers with names and maintainer descriptions for each maintainer, only write to stdout
Rob 'pythonhead' Cakebread (pythonhead a@t gentoo.org)