[gentoo-user] Re: flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-05 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > Sounds like an good candidate for a Google Summer of Code project actually. You scare the hell out of me. WE think so much alike. You STOLE my punchline here > Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any method more reliable than good old grep -r Now I know yo

[gentoo-user] Re: flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-05 Thread James
Brennan Shacklett gmail.com> writes: > The quse command in app-portage/gentoolkit is useful for finding a > quick definition of a use flag. You go "quse -D " and it > will give you the global definition (if it exists), as well as local > definitions for packages in which the use flag does someth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Friday 05 November 2010, James did opine thusly: > Lots of good information specific to those flags (Alan), but, > as I suspected, no general quick reference on a given flag, > with any sort of detail. Look here what I use from my .bashrc: > > # USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-04 Thread Brennan Shacklett
On 11/4/10, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > >> I don't know what you considered obvious, so excuse me if I'm >> repeating what you already knew. :) > > > OK (Alan) and Paul. I should have explained that v4l and > v4l2 were just examples. Sure, I know about them. Why > is v4l stil

[gentoo-user] Re: flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-04 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > I don't know what you considered obvious, so excuse me if I'm > repeating what you already knew. :) OK (Alan) and Paul. I should have explained that v4l and v4l2 were just examples. Sure, I know about them. Why is v4l still around? Some package somewhere with s