On Monday 02 October 2006 07:01, Grant wrote: > > > Could someone tell me why certain USE flags that should be enabled in > > > ebuilds are not and have parenthesis around them instead? > > > > As you can read in `man emerge` it may mean one of three things. Either > > it's forced on, masked off or removed since the last time you installed > > the package in question. > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144661#c7 > > Why would flags like mmx, mmxext, sse, and sse2 be masked from mplayer for > me? > > /etc/make.profile -> > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop
I'm not sure why the use flags are masked. But the mplayer ebuild does pretend they were enabled (this was done long before use.force came into existance). http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76071 -- Bo Andresen
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