USE Flags

I've just upgraded my profile to 2007.0 and then realised that many USE flags are missing. Then I switched the profile again to default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop instead of just default-linux/x86/2007.0. (Note: no desktop in the latter). Anyway, to view the USE flags in a profile, just take a look at:

1. /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop/make.defaults

or

2. emerge --info

Here you get to see the configuration for emerging packages including the USE flags

Encoding

The locale for my system is Unicode. Sometimes, when I use xchat or when I view a text file with xterm, umlauts are not displayed properly because the encoding is ISO-8859-1. So the commands are:

LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1" xterm

or

LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1" xchat