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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] decrypt a use flag - how to
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:12:11 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGW_EBGD5jt_qgq1O-v7d2nrWjE0y-fY+sHb=8GOVtWy1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331888043.24594.0@numa-i>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:54, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I do
>
> emerge -vp sys-libs/glibc
>
> I see the use flag    (-nls%*)
> What are these special characters '(' '%' and '*' about?
>

man emerge contains the complete information, search for "%" ;-)

But, in a nutshell:

The parens ( ) mean the flag's state (enabled/disabled) is forced by
the profile in use.

The "%" means there's a change of the flag (the flag gets deleted, or
forced, or a new flag)

The "*" means the flag's state has transitioned (enabled-->disabled or
vice versa)

In your case, I'd say the explanation would be: The nls flag for that
package was previously enabled (perhaps globally), but now it's forced
to be disabled by the profile.

CMIIW

Rgds,
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-16 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-16  8:54 [gentoo-user] decrypt a use flag - how to Helmut Jarausch
2012-03-16  9:12 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2012-03-16  9:30 ` [gentoo-user] gentoo on compiz problems Tamer Higazi
2012-03-16 12:49   ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-03-16 16:57     ` Tamer Higazi

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