i've been noticing lately that the output of emerge -pv is giving me some interesting output:
$ emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre6-r5 (-3dfx) (-3dnow) +3dnowext +X -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts +avi -bidi -bl +cdparanoia +debug +dga -directfb (-divx4linux) -doc +dts +dv +dvb +dvd +dvdread +edl +encode -esd -fbcon -ggi +gif -gtk +i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live +lzo +mad -matroska -matrox (-mmx) (-mmxext) +mpeg -mythtv -nas +nls -nvidia +oggvorbis +opengl -oss +png +real +rtc -samba -sdl (-sse) (-sse2) (-svga) +tga +theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0kB what i'm trying to understand here is why so many of the above flags are in brackets and marked with a "-" even though they're clearly enabled in my make.conf file as flags i want to use. most important being mmx, sse, sse2 and divx4linux. can someone please explain to me why these flags are being ignored and what those brackets mean? if you're interested, here's my USE variable in make.conf (i used app-portage/ufed): USE="-* 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X aac acl acpi acpi4linux aim alsa amarok audiofile avantgo avi berkdb bzip2 bzlib cdda cdio cdparanoia cdr chroot codecs css curl debug dga dio divx4linux dnd dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl encode exif extraicons faad ffmpeg freetype ftp gd geoip gif gpgme gstreamer i8x0 icq jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim libclamav libgd libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo lzw-tiff mad maildir md5sum mmx mmxext motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msn ncurses network nls no-old-linux noamazon nocd oav offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pam_chroot pam_timestamp pda pdf pdflib perl png posix povray python qt quicktime rar real rtc sdk session smime sms sox spamassassin spell sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg svga tga theora tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager wmf xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list