The % means the USE flag is new sine you installed dvdrip. The parenthesis mean the flag he either been subsequently deleted, or is masked by your profile. In this case, the three flags shown (cdr, gnome, minimal, and rar) are not supported by dvdrip-0.98.1.

dcm


On 9/3/06, Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:12:18AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 060903 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > I ran emerge -vp dvdrip and got:
> >   [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.1 [0.97.10] \
>      USE="(-cdr%) fping%* (-gnome%*) hal%* (-minimal%) mplayer ogg (-rar%*) \
>           -subtitles -vcd% vorbis%* -xine% xvid" 0 kB
> > Why are some of those USE flags, like cdr or gnome, set in brackets?
>
> Not here :
>
>   [ebuild  N ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.7-r1 \
>    USE="cdr -gnome -mplayer -ogg -rar -subtitles -xvid" 513 kB
>
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Of course there not... you are using STABLE (+) while Alexander is
using UNSTABLE (~). So your ebuilds are different.

But here aren't those either. And what I can tell you is that I've
seen them somewhere (and '%') symbol that I don't know exactly what
means.

I haven't found any documentation about it. Gentoo is the best
documented GNU/Linux distribution, but here I think that is a little
trick that hasn't been documented as it should.

Bye,
Rafael Fernandez Lopez.

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