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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <maintainer type="project">
+ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+ This package provides functions to fork threads and
+ wait for their result, whether it's an exception or a
+ normal value.
+
+ Besides waiting for the termination of a single thread
+ this packages also provides functions to wait for a
+ group of threads to terminate.
+
+ This package is similar to the
+ @threadmanager@, @async@ and @spawn@ packages.
+ The advantages of this package are:
+
+ * Simpler API.
+
+ * More efficient in both space and time.
+
+ * No space-leak when forking a large number of threads.
+
+ * Correct handling of asynchronous exceptions.
+
+ * GHC specific functionality like @forkOn@ and @forkIOWithUnmask@.
+ </longdescription>
+ <upstream>
+ <remote-id type="github">basvandijk/threads</remote-id>
+ </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>