Brennan Shacklett <bp.shacklett <at> gmail.com> writes:
> The quse command in app-portage/gentoolkit is useful for finding a > quick definition of a use flag. You go "quse -D <name of flag>" and it > will give you the global definition (if it exists), as well as local > definitions for packages in which the use flag does something > different. OK, let's take a look: # quse -D v4l global:v4l: Enables video4linux support video_cards.desc:v4l: VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for v4l video cards # quse -D v4l2 global:v4l2: Enable video4linux2 support Hmmmm, not terribly inspiring methinks. You have the right idea, but to quote and old TV commercial; "where's the Beef?" Wholely inadequate and no discussion on deprecation of vl4 as Alan so illustriously pointed out. > Hopefully this helps, I am not sure if this is what you meant. Exactly what I was looking for, just wholly inadequate, if not a plain embarrassment. Sure Hard core *nix hack can flesh these things out, but since emerge(portage) and flag settings are at the HEART of Gentoo, shouldn't we do better? This stuff get's documented all the time, by folks like Alan and Paul, but it never becomes assimilated into the collective! Like it or not, what makes a distro POWERFUL is this collective. If we assimilated just 1% of the good information that graces this group, our docs would be the envy of the operating systems world! Devs are too busy and many are angry and frustrated. Brilliant devs never like to document code, so somehow our "collective" need to understand things, from a consumer's point of view, and build docs! Without Docks, boats have no where to go, particularly the large one's that most benefit the average citizens. The gentoo Doc team, is actually receptive to new ideas! (hurry, it won't last!) As the #1 grouch even solicited ideas and involvement, since the old (absentee) grouch has been officially mortified. (not a stab, just a statement of fact from ANYONE that has tried to deal with the Gentoo Doc team). That's why I tricked, motivated and posted here. Seek HIM out and voice your concern GIT vs wiki for the docs, or whatever you idea is. PEACE, James
