Adding easy USE flag documentation to packages.g.o

15.04.2006

So, I just wanted to install the unstable amarok with its moodbar feature. In order to find out that visualization is not the USE flag for it but exscalibar I had to google these use flags which were not active on my system before.

This made me think about the way Gentoo documents use flags. The file /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc or the online list is by far not complete. Is there an other ressource I am missing besides Gentoo-Portage.com which only list which ebuild is useing which USE flag?

My suggestion would be to add a list of use flags to the package detail page with a link to the Gentoo Wiki for every use flag (see example below). So everyone could contribute to the use flag description.

See a similar post about the lack of USE flag documentation.

Example

amarok 1.4_beta3-r2
Use Flags: aac arts debug exscalibar flac gstreamer ifp ipod kde musicbrainz mysql noamazon opengl postgres real visualization xinerama xmms

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