On Monday 13 March 2006 03:21, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: 
[gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"':
> I'm more interested in discovering brand new use flags.  Say some
> package, foo,
> creates a new use flag, bar, then I'd like to see something like:
>
>   New Use Flags:
>     bar (used in:  foo)

Save use.local.desc and use.desc before each sync and diff with the new 
version after.

> It also would be nice to see when particular package changes the set of
> available
> use flags between versions.

The -pv output of emerge shows this.  A flag that was not available in your 
current version but it available in the one you are installing, will be 
colored yellow and postfixed with '%'.

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