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

["Rafael Fernández López" <info@maestroprogramador.com>]

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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