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From: Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()?
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:12:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060903151218.GA4803@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96459383.vFnzYCVaON@m-id.message-center.info>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-03 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-03 13:27 [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()? Alexander Skwar
2006-09-03 15:12 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2006-09-03 15:51   ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-09-03 16:59     ` Devon Miller
2006-09-03 16:49   ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-03 15:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-09-03 16:52   ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar

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