Bug 887755

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: include app-alternatives/* USE flags in emerge --info
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	arsen, sam, ulm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2022-12-21 18:48:44 UTC

I think it would be helpful to include the USE flags selected on app-alternatives/* in `emerge --info`.  This could e.g. help when you suspect that a weird configure failure is related to CONFIG_SHELL.

I can think of two options:

1. Just add a cheap hack into Portage to list USE flags on all packages in app-alternatives/*.

2. Extend info_pkgs output to include USE flags, and add interesting app-alternatives/* packages there.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2022-12-22 10:37:43 UTC

I am undecided whether these should be included. emerge --info output is already too long for my taste.

If we're going to include them, then the second option looks more future-proof to me.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-12-22 10:57:20 UTC

It needs to contain enough information to be useful in determining likely causes of a bug.

Comment 3 Arsen Arsenović gentoo-dev

2023-01-30 14:22:58 UTC

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> I am undecided whether these should be included. emerge --info output is
> already too long for my taste.
> 
> If we're going to include them, then the second option looks more
> future-proof to me.

In case ``emerge --info'' isn't meant to serve as a tool to quickly gather bug report information, an ``emerge --bugreport'' which contains this info and more seems appropriate, though I'm not sure that's the case.