Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 21:18:30 pk wrote: >> Can someone in the know explain what this means? I googled and saw that >> GNU userland is related to Gentoo/BSD. > > Not really. Gentoo/GNU/Linux uses a GNU userland. Gentoo/*BSD uses a BSD > userland.. > >> My guess would be that the Elibc is also BSD related. I'm running a >> Gentoo/GNU/Linux-system... > > Gentoo/GNU/Linux uses a glibc ELIBC. Gentoo/FBSD uses FreeBSD ELIBC. Other > alternatives include uclibc.. > >> Why would "sed" be emerged with -GNU and tar plus others be (+)GNU? > > "(-GNU%*)" means the conditional was removed from IUSE since the last time > you > installed the package. "(GNU%*)" means it was added to IUSE. IUSE records all > conditionals that an ebuild can use. > > As you can read in the discussion zmedico refers to USERLAND, ELIBC, ARCH and > KERNEL, however, gets treated specially, which means an ebuild can have > conditionals on them without recording it in IUSE. Therefore the addition or > removal of either of those variables may not change anything at all to the > build which is why it's only a cosmetic change..
Ok, thank you very much for the explanation, both of you. I don't know enough of the portage build system to know what all of this means so I'll have to investigate further... Best regards Peter K -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
