[CFT+BRAINSTORM] One USE_ to rule them all

[Armin Pirkovitsch]

On 02/06/13 14:26, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 6 February 2013 08:21, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:13:54AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> On 6 February 2013 07:41, Frederic Culot <culot at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> FEATURES.  It is likely to be easy to grep (as opposed to USE).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Eitan Adler
>>
>> What's wrong with grep USE= or grep USE+ ?
> 
> easier does not mean the alternate is impossible.
> 
> grep -R FEATURES /usr/ports
> is slightly easier than
> grep -ER "USE[+=]" /usr/ports
> 
> which is also wrong (it loses ${USE} for example).

wouldn't "USES" solve that dilemma?
And it would grammatically even be correct:
Port X USES gmake, gettext, whatever...