Bug 146060 - document symbols for useflag status listed with emerge --verbose
Bug#: 146060 Product:  Portage Development Version: 2.1 Platform: All
OS/Version: All Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: dev-portage@gentoo.org Reported By: caster@gentoo.org
Component: Documentation
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Summary: document symbols for useflag status listed with emerge --verbose
Keywords:  InSVN
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2006-09-02 17:42 0000
Description:   Opened: 2006-09-02 17:42 0000 
The symbols were recently updated but it's impossible to know their meaning
unless you read bug 144661...

------- Comment #1 From Vlastimil Babka (Caster) 2006-09-02 17:46:38 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=95799) [details]
/tmp/emerge.1.patch

Patch for man emerge based on commenst in bug 144661.

------- Comment #2 From Zac Medico 2006-09-02 22:29:12 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=95808) [details]
brief description of symbols

I've committed this brief description of the symbols in svn r4381.  Do you
think that will be enough?  I'm not sure if it's really necessary to list all
the possible combinations.  Note that the list of combinations from bug 144661
doesn't include forced flags (the opposite of masked).

------- Comment #3 From Zac Medico 2006-09-02 22:30:35 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=95809) [details]
brief description of symbols

Here's the correct attachment.

------- Comment #4 From Vlastimil Babka (Caster) 2006-09-03 03:27:35 0000 ------- 
Yeah that should be enough, certainly better than now :)

------- Comment #5 From Zac Medico 2006-09-03 15:01:45 0000 ------- 
This has been released in 2.1.1_rc1-r3.

------- Comment #6 From Alex Tarkovsky 2006-09-12 15:55:56 0000 ------- 
Please consider explicitly documenting all the combinations of annotations
given in comment #7 of bug 144661, not just the basics. I find it confusing for
instance that the parenthesis () take on different meanings depending on
context.