Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 27 February 2016 08:15:47 Daniel Frey wrote:
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> The brackets mean the USE flag is forced, masked or removed.
>
> (if you want to jump to the section in `man emerge` search for () using
> "/\(\)" as searching for verbose or -v shows results everywhere)

Actually, that search string failed in /usr/bin/most here, which I have as 
my MANPAGER. I just needed "/()".

> man emerge:
>
>        --verbose [ y | n ] (-v short option)
>               Tell  emerge  to run in verbose mode.  Currently this flag
> causes emerge to print out GNU info errors, if any, and to show the USE
> flags that will be used for each package when pretending. The following
> symbols are affixed to USE
>               flags in order to indicate their status:
>
>               Symbol   Location    Meaning
>
> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>
>               -        prefix      not enabled (either disabled or
> removed) *        suffix      transition to or from the enabled state %
>      suffix      newly added or removed
>               ()       circumfix   forced, masked, or removed
>               {}       circumfix   state is bound to FEATURES settings

So it is - thanks. I wonder how I missed it the first time. Anno Domini is at 
work again.

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Rgds
Peter