From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8bMK-0008NR-Ca for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:54:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12927E08A1; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8AFE0CA8 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B631B4009 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:53:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.519 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.519 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.607, BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AhAkBd4E3a6U for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E68631B4004 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8bLO-0001dh-VX for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:53:38 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:53:38 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:53:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Undocumented and unused USE variables Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.136 (I'm far too busy being delicious; GIT 0efefbf /st/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: caa4f978-5da9-49f3-a3b0-abe5823355ba X-Archives-Hash: 92b4cb4e03964ca787824395698d818c Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:01:43 -0400 as excerpted: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Christoph Niethammer > wrote: >> Here the euse command is realy handy. :-) >> However the sysfs USE flag is still hiding its documentation. >> So lets see if this is a bug or a feature. ;-) >=20 > Yup, euse is helpful, or you can grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.* > (including the local version). FWIW, there's also equery uses (or just equery u), part of gentoolkit=20 along with euse. But you run equery uses against a specific package, so=20 "equery u portage" for instance. Where USE flags have a package-specific= =20 meaning, it's printed, and I've come to prefer equery u's output to euse = - i's. FWIW(2), I'd suggest reading the equery manpage and getting familiar with= =20 all of its actions. At least here, I find it QUITE a useful command. =3D= :^) There's also portage-utils and I believe a few other alternatives. =20 Personally, I prefer equery, but I have portage-utils installed, as I'll=20 see an occasional post-install message recommending a query using portage= - utils, and it's easier to just have it installed than it is to figure out= =20 exactly what the query does and translate it to a equery. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman