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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Harry Putnam<reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> After some resent discussion here of USE in thread:
>   Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox
>
> I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of
> gimp (wrapped for mail).
>
>  Calculating dependencies... done!
>  [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/babl-0.0.22  USE="-mmx -sse" 388 kB
>
>  [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gegl-0.0.22  USE="svg -cairo -debug -doc
>   -ffmpeg -jpeg -mmx -openexr -png
>   -raw -sdl -sse -v4l" 1,226 kB
>
>  [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-2.6.6 USE="alsa python svg -aalib
>   (-altivec) -curl -dbus -debug -doc -exif -gnome -hal -jpeg -lcms -mmx
>   -mng -pdf -png -smp -sse -tiff -webkit -wmf" 15,700 kB
>
> Would anyone want things like -jpeg, -pdf, -png, -tiff, -exif - turned
> off in an image (or photo) processing program?
>
> What does it mean that those flags are turned off?
> Should I turn them on before emerging?

I agree with Volker, you must be using some profile which has disabled
them. Please post the output of "eselect profile show"