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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:22:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinrfaqSoW+3TUnF-5NNtfA=WbPxOQ@mail.gmail.com> (Paul
	Hartman's message of "Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:05:38 -0500")
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On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> In /etc/portage/package.use I have
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0# Need these or for some games
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0gnome-extra/gnome-games =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 clutter=
 opengl
>>
>> But when I try to emerge gnome-games, I don't get clutter
>>
>> =C2=A0 [ebuild =C2=A0 R =C2=A0 ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.30.2-r1 =C2=
=A0USE=3D"guile opengl -artworkextra (-clutter) -test" 0 kB
>>
>> I know that the (-clutter) means that the clutter flag has been removed,
>> but I can't see why it is removed. =C2=A0Indeed the ebuild specifically =
warns
>> me that disabling clutter means certain games are not built.
>
> It is masked by profile. Look in
> /usr/portage/profile/base/package.use.mask you can see:
>
> # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> (29 Jun 2010)
> # Mask clutter till introspection is unmasked
> =3Dgnome-extra/gnome-games-2.3* clutter

Thank you.  The real reason for this is not to have more gnome-games
available but to try out gnome3.

allan