On 08:05 Thu 24 Mar , Russ Brown wrote: > From what I can gather etcat is being phased out in favour of equery. > All fine and dandy, except that etcat has functionality that equery does > not that I find useful:
[snip description of features] Why don't you open a bug requesting this functionality? > These are both really useful features. The really annoying thing is that > etcat uses doesn't actually work at the moment (traceback below), which > means I have to install the package to find out what use flags I > actually want, and then install the package again! Well, that or go > looking through the gentoo files myself, but that's what these > utillities are supposed to help you avoid. Yes, I know I can do an > emerge -pv <package> to see a list of the use flags, but that doesn't > explain what they all mean, which etcat did. I know this isn't exactly what you want, but in the meantime use "grep use-flag /usr/portage/profile/use.*". At least it's a better solution than installing a package twice. HTH. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
