Template:InfoBox package

Documentation

Note
This page is a template. It contains some standardized, often used text, which can be transcluded inside other pages. As this template is widely used in our wiki, it may be protected in which case only staff members can change it. Use the discussion page to propose enhancements or fixes, or to voice your opinion.

Use this template inside an {{InfoBox stack}} to provide a link to package information at packages.gentoo.org in a right-floated box.

To provide a link to package information in running text (or in a list), use {{Package}}.

Parameters

Parameter name	Required?	Default value	Description
Anonymous parameter `1`	Yes	(n/a)	Package name in the form `category`-`subcategory`/`name`.
`header`	No	(n/a)	Set this to `yes` or `true` to display a Resources heading, but only if the infobox is the first one in an {{InfoBox stack}}.
`text`	No	`Package information`	Can be used to change the link text.

The value of the required anonymous parameter must match the name of a package in the Gentoo repository (popularly known as the "Portage tree"). The template does no checking of its input but simply links to the provided name. Valid package names can be determined using emerge on a running Gentoo system or by searching or browsing the repository online.

The text parameter can be used to distinguish between multiple instances of this template in the same InfoBox stack, should that be necessary.

Usage

{{InfoBox package}}
{{InfoBox package|cat-subcat/name}}
{{InfoBox package|cat-subcat/name|text=}}

See the template's testcases:

Correct

One anonymous parameter (a package name)

Wiki code

{{InfoBox stack
| {{InfoBox package|app-admin/sudo}}
}}

Main version

Package information

Sandbox version

Package information

Using header=true

Wiki code

{{InfoBox stack
| {{InfoBox package|app-admin/sudo|header=true}}
}}

Main version

Resources

Package information

Sandbox version

Resources

Package information

Specifying link text using text

Wiki code

{{InfoBox stack
| {{InfoBox package|www-client/firefox-bin|text=Binary package information}}
}}

Main version

Binary package information

Sandbox version

Binary package information

Incorrect

No parameter (error message)

Wiki code

{{InfoBox stack
| {{InfoBox package}}
}}

Main version

Parameter 1 not defined. For correct usage see InfoBox package template's documentation on the 1 parameter.

Sandbox version

Parameter 1 not defined. For correct usage see InfoBox package template's documentation on the 1 parameter.

Used outside of an {{InfoBox stack}} (wide box, not right-floated)

Wiki code

{{InfoBox package|app-admin/sudo}}

Main version

Package information

Sandbox version

Package information

See also[edit]

The templates below are implemented using {{InfoBox}}. They should also appear in Category:InfoBox templates, which may be more complete than this list.

These templates should be used within an {{InfoBox stack}}. Each should provide its own header parameter, but if necessary {{InfoBox header}} can be used.

Underlined text indicates the default heading provided by header=true for each type of template.

For use in articles

Resources

{{InfoBox blog}} – Link to a blog.
{{InfoBox codeberg}} – Link to Codeberg repository.
{{InfoBox github}} – Link to GitHub repository.
{{InfoBox gitlab}} – Link to GitLab repository.
{{InfoBox gitweb}} – Link to source code repository.
{{InfoBox guide}} – Link to a Gentoo guide (on this wiki).
{{InfoBox homepage}} – Link to the official home page for a piece of software or hardware.
{{InfoBox irc}} – Link to an IRC channel.
{{InfoBox manpage}} – Link to a man page.
{{InfoBox odoc}} – Link to official documentation, guides, how-tos, tutorials, etc. (not user-provided documentation).
{{InfoBox ohloh}} – Link to an Ohloh project.
{{InfoBox package}} – Link to package information at Packages.Gentoo.org.
{{InfoBox project}} – Link to the related Gentoo project (on this wiki).
{{InfoBox sourcehut}} - Link to Sourcehut project.
{{InfoBox wiki}} – Link to an official project wiki.
{{InfoBox wikipedia}} – Link to a Wikipedia article.

Article status

{{InfoBox dated}} – Article information is out of date.
{{InfoBox delete}} – Article should be deleted. ({{Delete}} is more noticeable.)
{{InfoBox todo}} – TODO list for the article.
{{InfoBox wikify}} – Article needs additional wiki-formatting.

For use on talk pages

Talk status

(Note that the simpler {{Talk}} can be used in place of both of these.)

For use on user pages

User info

{{InfoBox user}} – Basic user information. (special heading: username of user page owner)
{{InfoBox user dev}} – User is a Gentoo developer.
{{InfoBox user since}} – When user started using Gentoo.

Babel (spoken-language indicators)

Note
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:InfoBox package/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit) and testcases (edit) pages.
Please add categories and interwikis to the /doc subpage. (See the subpages of this template.)