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euses

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 2005
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NAME

euses - look up USE flag descriptions fast

SYNOPSIS

euses [STRING]...

DESCRIPTION

euses searches for and returns any line in the USE flag description files use.desc and use.local.desc containing USE flags in which (one of the) STRING(s) occur(s).

ARGUMENTS

If no arguments are given, euses prints usage information. If euses is used non-interactively, no colours are applied to the output. Otherwise, output is colourised. euses searches only the USE flags in use.[local.]desc for matching strings, thus entering `euses ftplo' will produce the following output:

net-misc/openssh : sftplogging - Enables sftplogging patch while `euses patch' would not return that line because `patch' is not found in the USE flag (but in its description). In a non-interactive shell, output might look like this:

use.local.desc:net-misc/openssh:sftplogging - Enables sftplogging patch

FILES

/etc/make.conf: euses tries to read the PORTDIR variable from /etc/make.conf to obtain the location of the Portage tree. If this fails because that variable is not set, euses expects the Portage tree to be found at the default location, /usr/portage.
${PORTDIR}/profiles/use.desc: describes global USE flags.
${PORTDIR}/profiles/use.local.desc: describes USE flags that only apply to specific packages. In the documentation directory for this program, you'll find the annotated source.

AUTHOR

Jeroen Roovers <jer at xs4all dot nl>

LICENSE

This program is distributed under the General Public License (GPL) version 2, a copy of which may be found at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt>.

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Time: 09:59:02 GMT, July 27, 2005