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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions...
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 23:25:10
Message-Id: 2eb20fc5-d5b6-9328-6aaf-e386a2862a84@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions... by Mick
1 On 12/05/2017 04:13 PM, Mick wrote:
2 >
3 > I just noticed chromium shows (pic) in brackets, which I assume it means
4 > forced.
5 >
6
7 Yep. That information is hidden deep down in the "emerge" man page...
8
9 --verbose [ y | n ] (-v short option)
10 Tell emerge to run in verbose mode. Currently this flag causes
11 emerge to print out GNU info errors, if any, and to show the USE
12 flags that will be used for each package when pretending. The
13 following symbols are affixed to USE flags in order to indicate
14 their status:
15
16 Symbol Location Meaning
17 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
18 - prefix not enabled (either disabled or removed)
19 * suffix transition to or from the enabled state
20 % suffix newly added or removed
21 () circumfix forced, masked, or removed
22 {} circumfix state is bound to FEATURES settings