On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers, > so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50 > various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their > description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for? > Is it something for vmware? > > I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but > there are not all of them...
I'm sure there are 10 ways of doing it, but this is what I use: equery u x11-base/xorg-drivers equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it installed. It can do other useful things such as tell you which package installed a file, or show all files installed by a package.
