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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:48:29
Message-Id: 1242143352.8541.0.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:42 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview
5 > with a qt4 GUI.
6 >
7 > My /etc/portage/package.use contains
8 > sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi
9 >
10 >
11 > but when I try to emerge it
12 > emerge -vp sci-visualization/paraview
13 >
14 > I get
15 > USE="examples mpi* python threads -doc -hdf5 (-qt4)"
16 >
17 > Why doesn't it work?
18
19 Per the emerge man page '()' means the USE flag is "forced, masked, or
20 removed".
21
22 -a