[gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables.

[Bob Phan]

I think it would be a good idea for someone (I could do this if no one
wants to) to maintain a parsable list of all the use variables, what
they are for, and which ebuilds use them.  This would be useful for
writing tools that would want to know this information, or even for
automatic maintenence of a webpage for use variables.  CSV or XML
would be a good format for this.  XML may be overkill, expecially for
someone wanting to write a shell script with acess to this
information, but XML would also work great for c, perl, python, and
web maintenence.

I have taken a look at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc,
and while useful for users to read, it is not easily parsable.

Any thoughts, suggestions?

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