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

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

· Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>:

> On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> [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, like
>> so: (-cdr%)?
> 
> It's a new feature in portage 2.1.1. Those USE flags were removed in since the 
> previously installed version..

Aha. It kind of contradicts the %, doesn't it?

              The  percent  sign  following  qt  indicates that the qt option has been
              added to the package since it was last installed.

> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144661

Ah. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144661#c7 covers this.

Thanks!

Alexander Skwar
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