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From: Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:41:29
Message-Id: 4520892A.1040507@tarpman.homelinux.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage parenthesis by Grant
1 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 > - Grant
6
7 The parentheses denote flags that are masked by your profile, e.g.
8 selinux is only available on the selinux profile. Some
9 hardware-specific flags have this as well, e.g. altivec is masked on
10 non-ppc profiles.
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