On Monday 01 January 2007 05:52, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On 12/31/06, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think this is an excellent idea! For starters you can use euse:
> >
> > # euse -i useflagname
>
> I already use euse. It is really helpful. The short descriptions
> of the USE flags are often helpful. Just as often, they are not
> informative enough to enable me, at least, to make an informed
> decision. A little more information would often have helped.
>
> Do you have any ideas about a next step?
>
> Alan
AFAIK the only references to what the flags mean
is /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc. To find out more, read the ebuild to
see/divine what the developer has in mind with that flag. For instance,
kdebase-3.5.5-r3 has amongst others the following:
DEPEND="arts? ( ~kde-base/arts-${PV} )
>=media-libs/freetype-2
media-libs/fontconfig
pam? ( kde-base/kdebase-pam )
>=dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2
ldap? ( >=net-nds/openldap-2 )
cups? ( net-print/cups )
...
So you would have to look into those various optional packages, find out
what they are, then look into kdebase a bit deeper and find what it
does with those optional packages. For example, the 'ldap' flag causes
kdebase to be built against net-nds/openldap.
The point is that it's simply not possible to give detailed info about
USE flags most of the time, and some intense RTFCing and research is
involved
alan
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