On Saturday 17 January 2004 04:30, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:58:50 +0100 (CET) Pawel Maczewski
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |  Is there a tool that would allow me to see, what does it means
> | when package A can be build with/without use of package B? It would
> | be very helpful while I'm trying to compile _as_little_ as I only
> | can.
>
> Here's a little bash function that might help:
>
> explainuseflag() {
>   sed -ne "s,^\([^ ]*:\)\?$1 - ,,p" \
>     /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc \
>     /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
> }
>
> Then you can do:
>
> bash $ explainuseflag xinerama
> Add support for XFree86's xinerama extension, which allows you to
> stretch your display across multiple monitors

I always use ufed. Let's me change the flags at the same, if needed.


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