etcat -u seems to be broken on some but not all ebuilds. I am guessing it is because the IUSE field of the vim ebuilds refers to a variables (probably set in some shared configuration file for the whole vi family of ebuilds). etcat -u seems to be working for the other packages I have looked at recently. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -pv vim 2. etcat -u vim Actual Results: 0 6 % sudo emerge -pv vim chrisg@nenya:/home/chrisg/temp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r1 [6.2-r7] -acl -debug +ncurses +nls +nls -(selinux) 6,788 kB [ebuild U ] app-editors/vim-6.3 [6.2-r7] -acl -cscope -debug +gpm -minimal +ncurses +nls +nls +perl +python -ruby -(selinux) -vim-with-x 4,650 kB Total size of downloads: 11,438 kB 0 7 % etcat -u vim chrisg@nenya:/home/chrisg/temp *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ] [ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ] 0 8 % grep IUSE /usr/portage/app-editors/vim/vim-6.3.ebuild chrisg@nenya:/home/chrisg/temp IUSE="${IUSE} nls" 0 9 % etcat -u vim-core chrisg@nenya:/home/chrisg/temp *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ] [ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ] 0 10 % grep IUSE /usr/portage/app-editors/vim-core/vim-core-6.3-r1.ebuild chrisg@nenya:/home/chrisg/temp IUSE="${IUSE} nls" 0 11 % Expected Results: I would have expected to see use information for at least nls (and better yet all the use flags that emerge found). Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/source ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups doc dvd encode esd f77 foomaticdb gcj gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jikes jpeg libg++ libwww mad mbox mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype trusted usb x86 xfs xml xml2 xmms xv zeo zlib"
it looks like I can do what I want with 'equery uses' vim. Lowered the priority of this to trivial.
qpkg and etcat are deprecated, please use equery instead.
