Caleb Cushing wrote: > maybe it would be a lot of work. to even develop the tools. but it > would be nice if a global use flag could have a detailed option.
this has been discussed a few times before. i think there's even a bug
for it (don't remember the #).
> example.
>
> euse -i mplayer [+ C ] mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback
> or encoding
>
> is what we currently get.
>
> add a -d option for --descriptive euse -id mplayer could show
> something like [+ C ] mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback
> or encoding media-video/kmplayer - adds the ability to play back
> media using the mplayer engine
euse already does this actually. ;)
$ grep "^doc" /usr/portage/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc
doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
$ grep ":doc" /usr/portage/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc
dummy-cat/fakepkg:doc - This is a package specific USE description.
$ euse -i doc
global use flags (searching: doc)
************************************************************
[- ] doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
local use flags (searching: doc)
************************************************************
[- ] doc (dummy-cat/fakepkg): This is a package specific USE description.
i keep meaning to look at how other USE-type utils handle it.
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