Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 02/27/2016 07:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 27 February 2016 14:58:25 I wrote:
>> On Saturday 27 February 2016 12:51:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:35:02 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>>> I think I know the answer already, but is there any way to install
>>>> www-
>>>> client/chromium without all the bloat? I don't see any need here for
>>>>
>>>> any of these:
>>>> 	app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher
>>>> 	app-accessibility/espeak
>>>> 	media-sound/sox
>>>> 	media-libs/libsndfile
>>>> 	media-libs/speex
>>>>
>>>> ...but they aren't controlled, or even affected, by USE flags. And why
>>>> two versions of dev-python/beautifulsoup?
>>>
>>> Looking at the ebuild, speech-dispatcher is required is you do not have
>>> USE="gn", the rest aren't mentioned and are probably dependencies of
>>> speech-dispatcher.
>>
>> That looked promising until I noticed "(-gn)" in USE when I said emerge
>> -pv chromium. So of course setting it in package.use didn't help.
> 
> Where are these punctuation marks documented, anyway? I've looked in various 
> man pages and even the portage/output.py file under /usr/lib. Google didn't 
> help either.
> 

The brackets mean the USE flag is forced, masked or removed.

(if you want to jump to the section in `man emerge` search for () using
"/\(\)" as searching for verbose or -v shows results everywhere)

man emerge:

       --verbose [ y | n ] (-v short option)
              Tell  emerge  to run in verbose mode.  Currently this flag
causes emerge to print out GNU info errors, if any, and to show the USE
flags that will be used for each package when pretending. The following
symbols are affixed to USE
              flags in order to indicate their status:


              Symbol   Location    Meaning
              ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

              -        prefix      not enabled (either disabled or removed)
              *        suffix      transition to or from the enabled state
              %        suffix      newly added or removed
              ()       circumfix   forced, masked, or removed
              {}       circumfix   state is bound to FEATURES settings