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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:36:01
Message-Id: 200610020730.23615.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
1 On Monday 02 October 2006 07:01, Grant wrote:
2 > > > Could someone tell me why certain USE flags that should be enabled in
3 > > > ebuilds are not and have parenthesis around them instead?
4 > >
5 > > As you can read in `man emerge` it may mean one of three things. Either
6 > > it's forced on, masked off or removed since the last time you installed
7 > > the package in question.
8 > >
9 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144661#c7
10 >
11 > Why would flags like mmx, mmxext, sse, and sse2 be masked from mplayer for
12 > me?
13 >
14 > /etc/make.profile ->
15 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop
16
17 I'm not sure why the use flags are masked. But the mplayer ebuild does pretend
18 they were enabled (this was done long before use.force came into existance).
19
20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76071
21
22 --
23 Bo Andresen

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