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Bug 77252 - USE flag explanations
Summary: USE flag explanations
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2005-01-09 10:20 UTC by ville
Modified: 2005-01-09 10:25 UTC (History)
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Description ville 2005-01-09 10:20:43 UTC
Require packages that have USE-flags to provide an explanation for each one. Probably should be some centralized database that the ebuilds could refer to in order to avoid dublicating the explanations for gnome and other common flags.

This USE-flag information should be accessible something like:

emerge --explain xorg-x11

resulting in a list of the use flags with a short explanation what each the flag means.

If that's too much then perhaps gentoo.org could setup a wiki for people to fill out this kind of documentation?


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Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-01-09 10:25:26 UTC
You mean like 'emerge gentoolkit && equery uses xorg-x11'?