Stroller wrote:

On 20 Nov 2009, at 10:05, Johannes Kimmel wrote:

Jarry wrote:
Hi,

I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
Is it something for vmware?

I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
there are not all of them...

Jarry

Maybe you want to try this little peace of code:

alias findflag="flagedit --desc --list | grep -i"

Works really great. If you search for a pattern, just "findflag foo". If you search for a specific use-flag you just add ":" at the end, like "findflag bar:"
Don't forget to install flagedit first, if you haven't already.

Surely this is just a re-implementation of the existing app-portage/euses?

$ euses foo
foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic printing driver database
$

Stroller.



seems so. but since I use flagedit anyway, I don't need another programm. Output is nearly the same.

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