On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:39 +0800, éæ å 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 complicated packages like mplayer and vlc both have no > explanation on use flags. As well as big packages like xorg-x11. Is there > anything wrong with my box? > > Can you give an example package that *has* explanation of the USE flags? So > I can at least know 'etcat uses' *works* on some packages.
$ etcat
etcat (0.3.1) - Portage Information Extractor - By: Alastair Tse
NOTICE: This tool will be phased out at some point in
the future, please use equery instead.
Bugs are still fixed, but new features won't be added.
<SNIP>
So try:
$ equery uses <package_name>
eg.
$ equery uses mozilla-firefox
[ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
[ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1 ]
U I
+ + java : Adds support for Java
- - mozsvg : Enable SVG support in mozilla and firefox
- - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for
debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least
add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too
+ + java : Adds support for Java
+ + gnome : Adds GNOME support
+ + ldap : Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol)
- - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for
debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least
add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too
- - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which
allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors
- - xprint : Support for xprint,
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/
- - moznoxft : Disable XFT support in mozilla (also firefox,
thunderbird)
- - mozdevelop : Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman)
- - mozxmlterm : Enable mozilla's XML-based command-line terminal
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