[gentoo-user] Re: flag details

[James]

Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk <at> gmail.com> writes:


> When in doubt I just read the ebuild and try to understand what's
> going on.  A policy would be nice, though, and sometimes even reading
> the ebuild leaves me guessing.  As you point out, saying "foo: enables
> libfoo" leaves me wandering "OK, but what the f* would I need foo for??"


I wonder if there is a reasonable why to extend app-portage/elogviewer

to parse more more details related to flags, or at leaset compile-time and
run-time details?


curiously,
James