On Saturday 27 February 2016 08:15:47 Daniel Frey wrote:
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> The brackets mean the USE flag is forced, masked or removed.
>
> (if you want to jump to the section in `man emerge` search for () using
> "/\(\)" as searching for verbose or -v shows results everywhere)
Actually, that search string failed in /usr/bin/most here, which I have as
my MANPAGER. I just needed "/()".
> man emerge:
>
> --verbose [ y | n ] (-v short option)
> Tell emerge to run in verbose mode. Currently this flag
> causes emerge to print out GNU info errors, if any, and to show the USE
> flags that will be used for each package when pretending. The following
> symbols are affixed to USE
> flags in order to indicate their status:
>
> Symbol Location Meaning
>
> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>
> - prefix not enabled (either disabled or
> removed) * suffix transition to or from the enabled state %
> suffix newly added or removed
> () circumfix forced, masked, or removed
> {} circumfix state is bound to FEATURES settings
So it is - thanks. I wonder how I missed it the first time. Anno Domini is at
work again.
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Rgds
Peter
