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From: Steven Ringwald <ringwald@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:23:25
Message-Id: 31d44b630911191513h118658d7t378c7823be7c93d1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description? by Jarry
1 Don't know how current the list is, but:
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3 http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
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5 <http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml>Steve
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7 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
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9 > Hi,
10 >
11 > I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
12 > so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
13 > various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
14 > description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
15 > Is it something for vmware?
16 >
17 > I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
18 > there are not all of them...
19 >
20 >