On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 22:46 -0400, daniel wrote: > i've been noticing lately that the output of emerge -pv is giving me some > interesting output: > > $ emerge -pv mplayer > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r5 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) +3dnowext > +X -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts +avi -bidi -bl +cdparanoia +debug +dga > -directfb (-divx4linux) -doc +dts +dv +dvb +dvd +dvdread +edl +encode -esd > -fbcon -ggi +gif -gtk +i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live > +lzo +mad -matroska -matrox (-mmx) (-mmxext) +mpeg -mythtv -nas +nls -nvidia > +oggvorbis +opengl -oss +png +real +rtc -samba -sdl (-sse) (-sse2) (-svga) > +tga +theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0kB > > what i'm trying to understand here is why so many of the above flags are in > brackets and marked with a "-" even though they're clearly enabled in my > make.conf file as flags i want to use. most important being mmx, sse, sse2 > and divx4linux. > > can someone please explain to me why these flags are being ignored and what > those brackets mean? if you're interested, here's my USE variable in > make.conf (i used app-portage/ufed):
What profile are you using? ls -l /etc/make.profile The parenthesis indicate that the USE flag is masked by your profile. Regards, Paul -- My Gentoo stuff: http://varnerfamily.org/pvarner/gentoo -- [email protected] mailing list
