On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jarry <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers, >> so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50 >> various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their >> description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for? >> Is it something for vmware? >> >> I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but >> there are not all of them... > > I'm sure there are 10 ways of doing it, but this is what I use: > > equery u x11-base/xorg-drivers > > equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it > installed. It can do other useful things such as tell you which > package installed a file, or show all files installed by a package.
And in the specific case of xorg-drivers those aren't USE flags at all but driver flags :)
