[gentoo-user] flag details

[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.


curiously,
James