app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 (and almost certainly other versions, but I haven't verified this) shows global USE flag descriptions (/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc) when both global and local (/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc) descriptions are available. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. among installed packages, find a local USE flag description in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc that is different from the global one provided by /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (e.g., sys-apps/hal:doc) 2. equery u <packagename> 3. grep <packagename> /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc 4. note the difference in descriptions of the relevant USE flag Actual Results: equery uses the more general description found in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc Expected Results: equery should use the more specific description found in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc I discovered this when looking through my USE flags for media-video/vlc-0.9.9a-r1, which describes the X and qt4 flags in this way in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc: media-video/vlc:X - Enables support for, e.g., fullscreen mode via the X Window System. By itself, this flag does not build a graphical interface. media-video/vlc:qt4 - Builds a x11-libs/qt based frontend. It is now the most up-to-date graphical interface available. But the equery output describes the flags in this way: + + X : Adds support for X11 + + qt4 : Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 4.x That's some pretty important information that's missing from equery's output!
Can you try this with 0.3.0_rc6? Because I believe this has been fixed.
Example output from equery in gentoolkit-0.3.0 $ equery u vlc * Searching for packages matching vlc ... [ Legend : U - flag is set in make.conf ] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] [ Found these USE flags for media-video/vlc-0.9.9a-r1 ] U I - - qt4 : (Restricted to >=media-video/vlc-0.9) Builds a x11-libs/qt based frontend. It is now the most up-to-date graphical interface available. + + X : Enables support for, e.g., fullscreen mode via the X Window System. By itself, this flag does not build a graphical interface. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 237419 ***
