Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I don't know what you considered obvious, so excuse me if I'm
> repeating what you already knew. :)
OK (Alan) and Paul. I should have explained that v4l and
v4l2 were just examples. Sure, I know about them. Why
is v4l still around? Some package somewhere with some old
kernel probably still needs it...... one man's deprecated cruft
is another man's gotta_have_crutch......
Lots of good information specific to those flags (Alan), but,
as I suspected, no general quick reference on a given flag,
with any sort of detail. Look here what I use from my .bashrc:
# USE flag settings hack by Ciaran McCreesh:
explainuseflag(){ sed -ne "s,^\([^ ]*:\)\?$1 - ,,p"
$(portageq portdir)/profiles/use.{,local.}desc; }
alias ef="explainuseflag"
ONE _OFF hunting around with some of the tools/methods
Alan mentioned or googling or hacks from wherever. WE
can do better.
Exactly what I expected and hoped I was wrong. As the DOC
team discusses opening up things a bit (Git vs wiki)
I thought I'd do a little test. Wouldn't it be nice
if (gentoo) documentation was expanded as surely USE flags
have some generic meaning and a (package) specific meaning
(sometimes) found deeper in the ebuild or code elsewhere.
Something maybe a little more systematic would be keen, methinks.
After all that work alan did, will it be assimilated
into the (gentoo/borg) collective?
Maybe I'm rambling, maybe I expect too much, maybe I dream
of a documentation system, that is open to many folks easily
injecting knowledge therein.
Maybe, I dream about gentoo too much.......
Oh well, thanks for participating in my little experiment.
(apologies in advance).
James
