eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree
There could be option like --no-use, which would have inversed effect comparing to --use, i.e. select packages, that don't have mentioned flag.
As for use case (I just have it), it could be used with --installed-with-use to find installed packages that dropped some obsoleted use flag. E.g. I could use it to find those, which droped python2_7 support.
For now I had to do it with diff:
There could be option like --no-use, which would have inversed effect comparing to --use, i.e. select packages, that don't have mentioned flag.
As for use case (I just have it), it could be used with --installed-with-use to find installed packages that dropped some obsoleted use flag. E.g. I could use it to find those, which droped python2_7 support. For now I had to do it with diff:
but that's not as convenient as if packages were listed by eix.