Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Friday 05 November 2010, James did
opine thusly:
> 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.
You are probably correct, the tools could indeed stand some improvement.
Sounds like an good candidate for a Google Summer of Code project actually.
Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any method more reliable than good old grep -r
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