Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:01:43 -0400 as excerpted: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Christoph Niethammer > <christoph.nietham...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Here the euse command is realy handy. :-) >> However the sysfs USE flag is still hiding its documentation. >> So lets see if this is a bug or a feature. ;-) > > Yup, euse is helpful, or you can grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.* > (including the local version).
FWIW, there's also equery uses (or just equery u), part of gentoolkit along with euse. But you run equery uses against a specific package, so "equery u portage" for instance. Where USE flags have a package-specific meaning, it's printed, and I've come to prefer equery u's output to euse - i's. FWIW(2), I'd suggest reading the equery manpage and getting familiar with all of its actions. At least here, I find it QUITE a useful command. =:^) There's also portage-utils and I believe a few other alternatives. Personally, I prefer equery, but I have portage-utils installed, as I'll see an occasional post-install message recommending a query using portage- utils, and it's easier to just have it installed than it is to figure out exactly what the query does and translate it to a equery. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
