Re: [gentoo-user] flag details

["Jc García" <jyo.garcia@gmail.com>]

2014-11-24 11:09 GMT-06:00 James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> So, I use euse to read aobut flags. Sometimes the same flag has slightly,
> but significantly different meanings depending on the packages it
> is use on. A tool with perhaps more detail or that parse the ebuild/sources
> for even greater detail information?
>
> I also use Ciaran's old (filter)script on flags:
>
> explainuseflag(){ sed -ne "s,^\([^ ]*:\)\?$1 - ,,p" $(portageq
> portdir)/profiles/use.{,local.}desc; }
>
> Which is due for updating. If does a nice job of filtering out the
> package version details, which I do not need most of the time.
>
> Suggested fixes to Ciarans old filter quickie I use from by bashrc?
>
> Are there any more detailed tools, even gui based tools, for
> reading about the details of what a flag does on a given package
> or information related to compile-time or run-time settings on a
> given code (but not including looking at the sources, I know I can
> do that)?
>
> (Gmane on gentoo user is working again from a browser window (yea).
> Sorry for the recent noisy_posts.
>
>
I use
$ equery u cat/pkg
It list the useflags and what the metadata.xml of the package says
about each of them, plus highlights the active ones if you have the
package already merged.


> curiously,
> James
>
>