Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?

[Devon Miller]

The % means the USE flag is new sine you installed dvdrip. The parenthesis
mean the flag he either been subsequently deleted, or is masked by your
profile. In this case, the three flags shown (cdr, gnome, minimal, and rar)
are not supported by dvdrip-0.98.1.

dcm


On 9/3/06, Rafael Fernández López <info@××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:12:18AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 060903 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > > I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got:
> > >   [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \
> >      USE="(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg
> (-rar%*) \
> >           -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid" 0 kB
> > > Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets?
> >
> > Not here :
> >
> >   [ebuild  N ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.7-r1 \
> >    USE="cdr -gnome -mplayer -ogg -rar -subtitles -xvid" 513 kB
> >
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>
> Of course there not... you are using STABLE (+) while Alexander is
> using UNSTABLE (~). So your ebuilds are different.
>
> But here aren't those either. And what I can tell you is that I've
> seen them somewhere (and '%') symbol that I don't know exactly what
> means.
>
> I haven't found any documentation about it. Gentoo is the best
> documented GNU/Linux distribution, but here I think that is a little
> trick that hasn't been documented as it should.
>
> Bye,
> Rafael Fernandez Lopez.
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