I thought of a command like emerge mozilla-firefox --useinfo
that prints what each flag is good for. Maybe some are explained in 5
words, other may need 5 lines.
Personally, I think that this has only become necessary because USE flags are
overloaded too much and usually encompass an
man emerge provides information on possible options, why should there
not be a way to get information on an ebuilds option???
because emerge is the tool, not the object. You wouldn't expect the
openoffice documentation to cover examples for different kinds of
letters, would you?
err.. i
Jamming a 'built-in list of use flags' into ebuilds/metadata.xml first
of all is vague,
I tried to explain simon that i don't want to have the explanations
built into the emerge-programm, because i thought he understood me that way.
second of all is going to jack up the tree's size,
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