On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:45:40 +0100, Christoph Eckert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was usually able to ask a package which USE flags it would
> use by typing
> 
> epm -pv packagename
 
<snip>

> It seems that there has something changed. Is there now an
> other way to ask the package for the USE flags?

If all you need is the names of the USE flags then a simple

emerge -pv <packagename> 

will work. To get a description of the USE flags used by the package, try

equery uses <packagename>

It is available in app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it installed.

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