From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJuMs-0003q7-FW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:58:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k83FvKqB028683; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:57:20 GMT Received: from llsa614-a01.servidoresdns.net (llsa614-a01.servidoresdns.net [82.223.190.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k83Fobwj019604 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:50:37 GMT Received: from maestroprogramador.com (66.Red-83-41-8.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.41.8.66]) by smtp-01.servidoresdns.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7EB331F6A for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by maestroprogramador.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 info@maestroprogramador.com; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:51:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:51:56 +0200 From: Rafael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez_L=F3pez?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding emerge -v output: Why are some USE flags in brackets ()? Message-ID: <20060903155156.GA13726@gentoobox> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <96459383.vFnzYCVaON@m-id.message-center.info> <20060903151218.GA4803@sympatico.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060903151218.GA4803@sympatico.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: ad057af5-0a7e-4853-b4ff-7779076bf16b X-Archives-Hash: 3fc13ad5a152e1abc09cf2fe9749522a 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 > > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list