Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far less

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ash Varma wrote: So try: $ equery uses package_name eg. I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $ equery uses --help Display USE

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-06 Thread Russ Brown
Christoph Gysin wrote: Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of etcat use?

2005-04-05 Thread Ash Varma
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:39 +0800, wrote: I learned I can use 'etcat use' if I don't know the meaning of the useflags. But the fact is I used gentoo for one year, everytime I get confused I will do 'etcat use' and I never got explanation of the use flags. Even the extremely