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From: "Rafael Fernández López" <info@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:58:42
Message-Id: 20060903155156.GA13726@gentoobox
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()? by Philip Webb
1 On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:12:18AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 060903 Alexander Skwar wrote:
3 > > I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got:
4 > > [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \
5 > USE="(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) \
6 > -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid" 0 kB
7 > > Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets?
8 >
9 > Not here :
10 >
11 > [ebuild N ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.7-r1 \
12 > USE="cdr -gnome -mplayer -ogg -rar -subtitles -xvid" 513 kB
13 >
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22
23 Of course there not... you are using STABLE (+) while Alexander is
24 using UNSTABLE (~). So your ebuilds are different.
25
26 But here aren't those either. And what I can tell you is that I've
27 seen them somewhere (and '%') symbol that I don't know exactly what
28 means.
29
30 I haven't found any documentation about it. Gentoo is the best
31 documented GNU/Linux distribution, but here I think that is a little
32 trick that hasn't been documented as it should.
33
34 Bye,
35 Rafael Fernandez Lopez.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()? Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@×××××.com>