I decided I wanted to remove the ipv6 use flag which I have had enabled in make.conf for quite a while but never really been on a ipv6 network and don't suspect I will in the near future. When upgrading firefox I noted it has that use flag and decided I want to know what it actually does. Only, I cannot find it anywhere in the ebuilds! So where does it come from and what *exactly* does it do?
~ # emerge -uvp mozilla-firefox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2 [1.5.0.1-r1] USE="java mozdevelop xprint -debug -gnome -ipv6* -xinerama" 33 kB Total size of downloads: 33 kB ~ # grep USE /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/*.ebuild /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4.ebuild:IUSE="gnome java mozdevelop mozsvg mozcalendar" /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11.ebuild:IUSE="java mozdevelop" /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.ebuild:IUSE="java mozdevelop" /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2.ebuild:IUSE="java mozdevelop" ~ # grep ipv6 /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/*.ebuild ~ # ~ # equery u mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE variables for www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1 ] U I - - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too - - gnome : Adds GNOME support - + ipv6 : Adds support for IP version 6 + + java : Adds support for Java + + mozdevelop : Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman) - - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors + + xprint : Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
