Hi,
It looks like some users are a bit confused about the new 2005.0 profile
and multilib, so I'll give a little statement ;)
AFAIK, there is no mechanism to force a specific use flag with a
profile. However, we want to force 'multilib' on the normal 2005.0
profile, so we (i.e. eradicator) did the following:
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask:
# Jeremy Huddleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# multilib is forced on when we have ${MULTILIB_ABIS} defined
multilib
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/make.defaults:
...
MULTILIB_ABIS="x86 amd64"
DEFAULT_ABI="amd64"
...
This means that we disabled the 'multilib' use flag because you no
longer have the choice (well, you have the choice to switch to
2005.0/no-multilib, but that's another point ;)) to enable/disable
multilib support for your packages, they ALWAYS will be
multilib-enabled. The star in (-multilib)* is quite logic then: you had
the use flag on before, now the flag/your choice is disabled.
I hope that helps to clear up misunderstandings.
Greetings,
blubb
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