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Caleb Cushing wrote: |
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> maybe it would be a lot of work. to even develop the tools. but it |
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> would be nice if a global use flag could have a detailed option. |
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this has been discussed a few times before. i think there's even a bug |
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for it (don't remember the #). |
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> example. |
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> euse -i mplayer [+ C ] mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback |
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> or encoding |
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> is what we currently get. |
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> add a -d option for --descriptive euse -id mplayer could show |
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> something like [+ C ] mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback |
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> or encoding media-video/kmplayer - adds the ability to play back |
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> media using the mplayer engine |
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euse already does this actually. ;) |
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$ grep "^doc" /usr/portage/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc |
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doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc) |
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$ grep ":doc" /usr/portage/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc |
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dummy-cat/fakepkg:doc - This is a package specific USE description. |
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$ euse -i doc |
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global use flags (searching: doc) |
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************************************************************ |
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[- ] doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc) |
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local use flags (searching: doc) |
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************************************************************ |
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[- ] doc (dummy-cat/fakepkg): This is a package specific USE description. |
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i keep meaning to look at how other USE-type utils handle it. |
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by design, by neglect |
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