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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:23:51
Message-Id: yu9vcwpdwey.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list by Paul Hartman
1 On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >> In /etc/portage/package.use I have
5 >>
6 >>    # Need these or for some games
7 >>    gnome-extra/gnome-games         clutter opengl
8 >>
9 >> But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter
10 >>
11 >>   [ebuild   R   ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.30.2-r1  USE="guile opengl -artworkextra (-clutter) -test" 0 kB
12 >>
13 >> I know that the (-clutter) means that the clutter flag has been removed,
14 >> but I can't see why it is removed.  Indeed the ebuild specifically warns
15 >> me that disabling clutter means certain games are not built.
16 >
17 > It is masked by profile. Look in
18 > /usr/portage/profile/base/package.use.mask you can see:
19 >
20 > # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> (29 Jun 2010)
21 > # Mask clutter till introspection is unmasked
22 > =gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.3* clutter
23
24 Thank you. The real reason for this is not to have more gnome-games
25 available but to try out gnome3.
26
27 allan