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

[Bob Phan]

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:

<big snip>
>
> There has been discussion of an IUSE var for each ebuild, that lists the
> use flags that an ebuild can avail itself of. This would ease up the task
> of collectiong these options. In the meantime, the regex
>
> [^#]*use ([a-z0-9]+).*
>
> does the trick.
>
I found while using this regex, some vars that were coming up were
quite suspect.  Those such as:
the
you
we
they

Maybe it's a perlism.  I just threw a

s/#.*$//

before using the regex to fix it.  And removed the [^#]*, which
wasn't working.  What did you use that regex in?  Just curious.

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