On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:19:39 +0200 Daniel Stiefelmaier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of
| a ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
| The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell
| if you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or...
| whatever.

We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past,
but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who
claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for
every package.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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