On 12/10/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:35:18 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
>
> > If it is, is there a way of dumping
> > all the use flags for all my currently installed ebuilds into
> > packages.conf?
>
> You really don't want to do that. you'd end up with an unmanageable mess
> that completely overrides /etc/make.conf and your profile.
>
> If you run "emerge -puvDN world" you'll see all packages that are
> installed with different USE flags to the current settings. Add these
> to /etc/portage/package.use.


I think this is exactly what I was looking for. I already have quite an
extensive global USE list (read through the whole list and set/unset what I
knew about). I only need to write the different, package-specific ones.

Thanks to everyone for enlightening me on the issue,
Vlad