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Christophe Vanfleteren wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 July 2002 01:37, Marko Mikulicic wrote:
> <--->
> 
>>PS: it would be nice if portage could maintain a list
>>of possible use flags, based on ebuild files contents, with a brief
>>description on each.
> 
> 
> Try 
> cat /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
> 
> Christophe Vanfleteren
> 

Yes, it does the job. But it has to be updated by hand.
I mean something that scans the ebuilds when rsyncing,
for example, which would list all use flags, including those
added in new user submitted ebuild files.
  I'm not sure if it makes sense, just food for thoughts.

Marko