Re: [gentoo-dev] how long does it take portage to parse an ebuild?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 10:28, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 10:04, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>Is there a quicker
> >>way to determine the USE flags on the fly?
> >
> > portageq envvar USE
>
> That take twice as long to run as 'emerge info | grep USE'.

so the way may not be quicker, but portageq is the way you're supposed to get 
portage related information for scripts and stuff ...
file a bug that it currently isnt very fast ;)
-mike