(top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant stuff you posted)
The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that t's parent profile is /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/. If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/parent you'll see that it's profile is /usr/portage/profiles/base. Now, look in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask That's the reason the win32codecs useflag is masked on this profile, as I explained in an earlier email. Dave On 13:28 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > David Morgan schreef: > > On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say > >>much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is > >>associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag > >>would call is unavailable). > > > > > > Maybe, but that's not the way portage works these things out > > > Well, it looks like you're at least partially right-- I went back to the > source: > > > # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation. > > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 > > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/use.mask,v 1.14 > > 2005/05/20 11:52:10 lu_zero Exp $ > > > > # This file masks out USE flags that are simply NOT allowed in the default > > # profile for any architecture. This works, for example, if a non-default > > # profile (such as the selinux profiles) have a USE flag associated with > > # them. > > > > uclibc > > > > # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X > > aqua > > > > # amd64 only: > > emul-linux-x86 > > > > # sparc only: > > ultra1 > > > > # x86 only > > divx4linux > > win32codecs > > kqemu > > > > # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation. > > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 > > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/use.mask,v > > 1.8 2005/05/21 01:13:41 lu_zero Exp $ > > > > # This file masks out USE flags that are simply NOT allowed in the default > > # x86 profile. This works, for example, if another architecture's > > # profile have a USE flag associated with (such as altivec, mmx, etc). > > > > # Unmask x86 instruction sets > > -mmx > > -mmx2 > > -mmxext > > -sse > > -sse2 > > -3dnow > > -3dnowext > > -win32codecs > > Plus, these files are where the masks are, the use.mask for the uclibc > profile only contains > > > pam > > nls > > nptl > > nis > > # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X > > aqua > > > > # this seems to pull in pre compiled glibc libs. > > divx4linux > > > > emul-linux-x86 > > > > > > > > and nothing else (and the other folders in the profile folder don't > contain a use.mask). > > Oh, wait a minute, I think I found it: > > > # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation > > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 > > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/selinux/use.mask,v 1.1 > > 2005/05/08 23:37:08 pebenito Exp $ > > > > -selinux > > > > # disallow posix acl since this is SELinux > > acl > > > > # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X > > aqua > > > > # must use a specific SELinux profile that unmasks this > > uclibc > > > > > > > > # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation > > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 > > # $Header: > > /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/selinux/2005.1/x86-uclibc/use.mask,v 1.3 > > 2005/05/14 20:53:38 pebenito Exp $ > > > > -uclibc > > > > -win32codecs > > > > # PPC instructions > > altivec > > > > nls > > > > But from this, it looks like there is no way to unmask the USE flags in > question-- "simply NOT allowed" seems pretty definitive, although a > careful reading of man portage might reveal a loophole. But I doubt it.. > and in fact, it does not seem to have any such, from the files list in > man portage: > > > > SYNOPSIS > > /etc/ > > make.globals > > make.conf(5) > > > > /etc/make.profile/ > > deprecated > > make.defaults > > packages > > packages.build > > package.provided > > parent > > use.defaults > > use.mask > > virtuals > > > > /etc/portage/ > > bashrc > > package.mask > > package.unmask > > package.keywords > > package.use > > mirrors > > categories > > > > /etc/portage/profile/ > > site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ > > > > /usr/portage/profiles/ > > arch.list > > categories > > info_pkgs > > info_vars > > package.mask > > profiles.desc > > thirdpartymirrors > > use.desc > > use.local.desc > > use.mask > > > > /var/lib/portage/ > > world > > > > Don't see anything like a use.unmask file. > > What I would now be interested in, if this concerned me, is why this > particular USE flag is "simply NOT allowed" under this extremely > specialized profile, but I have no idea where I would find that > information (except maybe b.g.o, or the gentoo docs related to either > uclibc, hardened/selinux, masked packages, or all of the above). > > Holly > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
