1 .TH "EUSE" "1" "2004-10-17" "Gentoo Linux" "Gentoo Toolkit"
3 euse \- Gentoo: command line USE flag editor
6 \fI<option> [suboption] [useflaglist]\fB
10 is used to set(disable/enable) USE flags in /etc/make.conf without having to edit
11 the file directly. It is also used to get detail information about use flags
12 like description, status of flags(enabled/disabled), type of flag(global/local)
17 Enables USE flag(s) in make.conf. It accepts one or more space seperated
18 USE flags as parameters.
20 \fB\-D, \-\-disable\fI
21 Disables USE flag(s) in make.conf. Puts a '\-' sign in front of the USE flag
22 and appends it to the USE setting in make.conf. It accepts one or more
23 space seperated USE flags as parameters.
26 Removes USE flag(s) in make.conf. Removes all positive and negative references to
27 the given USE flags from make.conf.
30 Prints detail information about the USE flag(s). If no arguments are given then
31 it assumes you want information for all USE flags. If one or more
32 arguments are given (space separated) then only information for those flags is
36 The output is in the following format:
38 \fB[\- cD ]\fI alpha \- indicates that architecture ...
40 \fB[\- ]\fI moznocompose (net\-www/mozilla):.br
41 Disable building of mozilla's web page composer
43 The the indicators in the first column are:
45 + if the flag is seen as active by portage, \- if not
47 E if the flag is enabled in the environment, e if it is
48 disabled in the environment, nothing if it's not affected
51 C if the flag is enabled in make.conf, c if it is
52 disabled in make.conf, nothing if it's not affected
54 .IP is_in_make_defaults
55 D if the flag is enabled in make.defaults, d if it is
56 disabled in make.defaults, nothing if it's not affected
58 .IP is_in_make_globals
59 G if the flag is enabled in make.globals, g if it is
60 disabled in make.globals, nothing if it's not affected
63 Then follows the name of the flag, for local flags the
64 package name and then the description (on a new line for
68 Shows all currently active USE flags and where they are activated (see
69 description for \fB\-\-info\fI).
72 Show the help message listing all the available flags and a short description
74 \fB\-v, \-\-version\fI
75 Show the version information
79 /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
83 $PORTDIR/profiles/use.desc
85 $PORTDIR/profiles/use.local.desc
89 Original version by Arun Bhanu <codebear@gentoo.org>
91 Updated for rewritten euse by Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
93 euse doesn't handle USE flags enabled or disabled by use.defaults, use.mask
94 or package.use yet. It also doesn't completely understand the \-* flag.
98 The \fI/usr/bin/euse\fR script.