# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.257 2005/07/11 13:39:27 greg_g Exp $ # keep them sorted (excluding the special arch flags near the end). 3dfx - Adds support for 3dfx video cards to XFree86. See: voodoo3 3dnow - Adds support for 3dnow multimedia processor instructions X - Adds support for X11 Xaw3d - Adds support of the 3d athena widget set a52 - Enables support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD aac - Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio aalib - Adds support for media-libs/aalib (ASCII-Graphics Library) accessibility - Adds support for accessibility (eg 'at-spi' library) acl - Adds support for Access Control Lists acpi - Adds support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface adabas - Adds support for the Adabas database engine adns - Adds support for the adns DNS client library afs - Adds OpenAFS support (distributed file system) aim - Enable AIM IM protocol support alsa - Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) altivec - Adds support for optimizations for G4 and G5/ppc970 processors apache2 - Chooses Apache2 support when a package supports both Apache1 and Apache2 apm - Adds APM (Advanced Power Management) support arts - Adds support for aRts: the KDE sound daemon audiofile - Adds support for libaudiofile where applicable avi - Adds avifile (Library for avi) support bash-completion - Enable bash-completion support bcmath - Adds support for libbcmath berkdb - Adds support for sys-libs/db (Berkeley DB for MySQL) bidi - Enables bidirectional language support bindist - Flag to enable or disable options for prebuilt (GRP) packages (eg. due to licensing issues) birdstep - Adds support for the Birdstep Database Server blas - adds support for the virtual/blas numerical library bluetooth - Enable Bluetooth Support bmp - (EXPERIMENTAL) Adds beep media player support. Mainly used to support bmp plugins in xmms, but can also be used for generic beem media player support. bonobo - Adds support for gnome-base/bonobo (Gnome CORBA interfaces) bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during original system bootstrapping boundschecking - add bounds checking patch by Haj Ten Brugge, this will DISABLE the hardened PIE+SSP patches build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping. bzip2 - Use the bzlib compression library calendar - Adds support for calendars (not using mcal!) canna - Adds support for the Canna kana to kanji conversion engine caps - Use Linux capabilities library to control privileges. cdb - Adds support for the CDB database engine from the author of qmail cdparanoia - Enables cdparanoia support cdr - Adds support for CD writer hardware chasen - Enable chasen support cjk - Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) cpdflib - Adds support for clibpdf crypt - Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable cscope - Enables cscope interface -- in vim for example ctype - Enables ctype functions cups - Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) curl - Adds support for client-side URL transfer library curlwrappers - Adds support for using curl in streams db2 - Enables support for IBM DB2 database server dba - Enables dbm-compatible layers dbase - Adds support for dbase file format dbm - Adds support for generic DBM databases. dbmaker - Adds support for dbmaker database server dbus - Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc) dbx - Adds database abstraction layer 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 dedicated - Adds support for dedicated game servers (some packages do not provide clients and servers at the same time) dga - Adds DGA Support (Xfree86) (DGA=Direct Graphic Access) diet - Compile and link with dietlibc dio - Adds direct i/o support directfb - Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices) divx4linux - Adds support for divx.com's DivX(tm) mpeg4 libary doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc) dv - Enables support for a codec used by many camcorders dvb - Adds support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) dvd - Adds support for DVDs dvdr - Adds support for DVD writer hardware (e.g. in xcdroast) dvdread - Enables usage of Ogle's libdvdread for DVD playback eds - Enables support for Evolution-Data-Server(eds) emacs - Adds support for GNU Emacs emacs-w3 - Add support for Emacs/W3 where applicable #embedded - Reserved flag for the embedded herd emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite empress - Adds support for the Empress database server empress-bcs - Adds local access support for the Empress database server emul-linux-x86 - Pull in binary support libraries for x86 applications encode - Adds support for encoding of audio or video files esd - Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) esoob - Adds support for Easysoft OOD database ethereal - Adds support for ethereal wiretap log support in kismet ev6 - Assume Alpha processor is EV6 or better evo - Adds support for evolution in gnumeric and multisync examples - Install example source code exif - Adds support for reading EXIF headers from JPEG and TIFF images expat - Enable the use of dev-libs/expat fam - Enable FAM support fastcgi - Add support for the FastCGI interface fbcon - Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel fdftk - Add supports for Adobe's FDF toolkit. ffmpeg - Enable ffmpeg support fftw - Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms filepro - Adds support for filePro databases firebird - Adds support for the Firebird relational database flac - Adds support for the flac audio codec flash - Adds support for creating flash files using Ming flatfile - Adds dbm support for flat files foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic printing driver database fortran - Adds support for fortran (formally f77) freetds - Adds support for the TDS protocol to connect to MSSQL/Sybase databases freewnn - Adds support for FreeWnn kana to kanji conversion engine frontbase - Adds support for the frontbase sql server ftp - Adds FTP support gb - Adds support for Gnome Basic to gnumeric gcj - Enable building with gcj gd - Adds support for media-libs/gd (to generate graphics on the fly) gd-external - Use the external version of gd rather than the bundled one (possibly dangerous) gdbm - Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) geoip - Add geoip support ggi - Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) gif - Adds GIF image support ginac - Adds sci-mathematics/ginac (symbolic math) support glut - Build an OpenGL plugin using the GLUT library gmp - Adds support for dev-libs/gmp (GNU MP library) gnome - Adds GNOME support gnustep - Adds integration with GNUstep environment gnutls - Adds support for net-libs/gnutls gphoto2 - Adds digital camera support gpm - Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) gps - Adds support for Global Positioning System gstreamer - Adds support for media-libs/gstreamer (Streaming media) gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) gtk2 - Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both. gtkhtml - Adds support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml guile - Adds support for dev-util/guile (interpreter for Scheme) hal - Enable Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) support hardened - activate default security enhancements for toolchain (gcc, glibc, binutils) hardenedphp - include the hardened php security patch for the php group of ebuilds howl - Enable howl support, enables DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) hyperwave-api - Adds support for Hyperwave document storage system ibm - Add support for IBM ppc64 specific systems icc - Add support for the Intel C++ Compiler (does _not_ set $CC) iconv - Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library icq - Enable ICQ IM protocol support ieee1394 - Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, camera, ...) ifc - use ifc instead of g77 to build imagemagick - Enables support for Imagemagick (image converter) imap - Adds support for IMAP imlib - Adds support for media-libs/imlib (Image loading and rendering library) informix - Adds support for Informix database ingres - Adds support for Ingres database inifile - Adds dbm support for .ini files innodb - Adds innodb support for mySQL (transaction support) interbase - Adds support for Interbase database iodbc - Adds support for iODBC library ipv6 - Adds support for IP version 6 jabber - Enable jabber IM protocol support jack - Adds support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit java - Adds support for Java javascript - enable javascript support jikes - Compile Java source code with jikes (faster) joystick - Add support for joysticks in all packages jpeg - Adds JPEG image support junit - Adds junit awareness -- useful for developers. kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) kdeenablefinal - Makes kde ebuilds use the enable-final flag, yielding big compilation speedups at the cost of very heavy mem usage kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire new tarballs for every new release kerberos - Adds kerberos support krb4 - Adds optional kerberos 4 compatibility support ladcca - Adds Linux Audio Developer's Configuration and Connection API support (LADCCA) lapack - adds support for the virtual/lapack numerical library lcms - Adds lcms support to media-gfx/imagemagick (Color management) ldap - Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) leim - Adds input methods support to Emacs lesstif - Use lesstif over openmotif in cases where a program supports both libcaca - Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics libedit - Use the libedit library (replacement for readline) libg++ - Adds C++ modules in dev-db/postgresql (libpq++) libgda - Adds GNU Data Access (CORBA wrapper) support for gnumeric libwww - Adds libwww support (General purpose WEB API) lirc - Adds support for lirc (Linux's Infra-Red Remote Control) livecd - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during livecd building. lm_sensors - Adds linux lm_sensors (hardware sensors) support m17n-lib - Enable m17n-lib support mad - Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) maildir - Adds support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools mailwrapper - Adds mailwrapper support to allow multiple MTAs to be installed matroska - Adds support for the matroska container format matrox - Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer mbox - Adds support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools mcal - Adds support for MCAL calendar system mcve - Support for the MCVE credit card payment system memlimit - Adds memory usage limiting in supporting programs mhash - Adds support for the mhash library migemo - enable migemo support for Japanese mikmod - Adds libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files milter - Adds sendmail mail filter (milter) support mime - Adds MIME support ming - Adds support for ming library for creating flash format files minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) mmap - Adds mmap support mmx - Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors mng - Adds support for libmng (MNG images) mnogosearch - Adds support for the mnoGoSearch search engine mono - Build Mono bindings to support dotnet type stuff motif - Adds motif support (x11-libs/openmotif x11-libs/lesstif) mozilla - Adds mozilla support mp3 - Add support for reading mp3 files mpeg - Adds libmpeg3 support to various packages. mpi - Adds MPI (Message Passing Interface) layer to the apps that support it. msession - Adds support for msession daemon msn - Enable MSN Messenger IM protocol support msql - Adds support for the MSQL database server mssql - Adds support for Microsoft SQL Server database mule - Adds multi-language support to XEmacs multilib - On 64bit systems, if you want to be able to compile 32bit and 64bit binaries mysql - Adds mySQL support mysqli - Adds support for the improved mySQL libraries nas - Adds support for network audio sound ncurses - Adds ncurses support (console display library) netboot - Enables network booting netcdf - Enable NetCDF data format support neXt - Enable neXt toolkit nhc98 - Use the nhc98 Haskell compiler instead of GHC if the package supports it nis - Support for NIS/YP services nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) nocd - Tells emerge to install all files required to run the application without a CD mounted nocxx - Disable support for C++ (DONT USE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING) nptl - Enable support for Native POSIX Threads Library, the new threading module (requires linux-2.6 or better usually) oci8 - Adds Oracle 8 Support odbc - Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity) offensive - Enables potentially offensive items in packages ofx - Enable support for importing (and exporting) OFX (Open Financial eXchange) data files ogg - Adds support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac) oggvorbis - Adds support for the OggVorbis audio encoding - DEPRECATED useflag openal - Adds support for the Open Audio Library opengl - Adds support for OpenGL oracle7 - Adds support for Oracle 7 oracle - Enable oracle support osc - Enables support for Open Sound Control oscar - Enable Oscar (AIM/ICQ) IM protocol support oss - Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System) ovrimos - Adds support for the Ovrimos Database engine pam - Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip pcmcia - Adds support for PCMCIA slots/devices found on laptop computers pcntl - Adds support for process creation functions pcre - Adds support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions pda - Adds support for portable devices. pdflib - Adds support for PDF (Portable Document Format) perl - Adds support/bindings for the Perl language. pfpro - Adds support for Verisign Payflow Pro php - Include support for php pic - Build Position Independent Code. Do not utilize this flag unless you know what you're doing. plotutils - Adds plotutils support to gnuplot (library for 2-D vector graphics) png - Adds support for libpng (PNG images) portaudio - Adds support for the crossplatform portaudio audio API posix - Adds support for POSIX-compatible functions postgres - Adds support for the postgresql database ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files prelude - Adds support/bindings for the Prelude Intrusion Detection System profile - Adds profile support to builds of packages (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild in support) python - Adds support/bindings for the Python language qdbm - Adds support for the qdbm library qt - Adds support for the Qt library. quicktime - Adds support for OpenQuickTime radius - Adds support for RADIUS readline - enables support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that most everyone wants. recode - enables support for the GNU recode library ruby - Adds support/bindings for the Ruby language samba - Adds support for SAMBA sapdb - Adds support for SAP DB sasl - Adds support for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer scanner - Adds support for scanner hardware (e.g. build the sane frontend in kdegraphics) sdl - Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library) selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur session - Adds persistent session support sharedext - Adds support for building shared extensions in php sharedmem - Adds support for shared memory use shorten - Adds support for the shorten audio compressor simplexml - support for simplexml skey - Enable S/Key (Single use password) authentication support slang - Adds support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different) slp - Adds Service Locator Protocol support to CUPS smartcard - Enables smartcard support sndfile - Adds support for libsndfile snmp - Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available soap - Adds support for SOAP sockets - Adds support for tcp/ip sockets socks5 - Adds support for the socks5 proxy solid - Adds support for the Solid database engine source - Zip the sources and install them sox - Adds support for Sound eXchange (SoX) speex - Adds support for the speex audio codec spell - Adds dictionary support spl - Adds support for the Standard PHP Library sqlite - Adds support for sqlite - embedded sql database sse - fast floating point optimization for PentiumIII+ class chips ssl - Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically svg - Adds support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG ). This option is mainly intended for users that tend to browse multimedia sites frequently. svga - Adds support for SVGAlib (graphics library) sybase - Adds support for the Sybase SQL Database Server sybase-ct - Adds support for Sybase-CT symlink - Force kernel ebuilds to automatically update the /usr/src/linux symlink. sysvipc - Support for System V-compatible inter-process communication szip - Use the szip compression library tcltk - Support for Tcl and/or Tk tcpd - Adds support for TCP wrappers test - Work around to pull in packages needed to run with FEATURES=maketest / FEATURES=test tetex - Adds support for teTeX theora - Adds support for the Theora Video Compression Codec threads - Adds threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads tidy - Adds support for HTML Tidy tiff - Adds support for the tiff image format tokenizer - Adds support for the PHP file parser truetype - Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts uclibc - Enable uclibc specific patches and build or link uclibc unicode - Adds support for Unicode usb - Adds USB support to applications that have optional USB support (e.g. cups) v4l - Enables video4linux support vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour vcd - Video CD support verbose - effects vary across packages; generally used to enable extra informational output during a build or at runtime vhosts - Adds support for installing web-based applications into a virtual-hosting environment videos - Tells portage to install optional video files (used in some games) voodoo3 - Adds support for 3Dfx's Voodoo3 video chipset, else defaults to Voodoo4/5 support if not in USE. vorbis - Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec wddx - Adds support for WDDX wifi - Enable wireless network functions win32codecs - use win32codecs package for dll avi decoding support (wmv and what not) wmf - Adds support for the wmf vector image format wxwindows - Adds support for wxWindows/wxGTK xface - Adds xface support used to allow a small image of xface format to be included in an email via the header 'X-Face'. xine - Add support for the XINE movie libraries xinerama - Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors xml - Check/Support flag for XML library (version 1) xml2 - Check/Support flag for XML library (version 2) xmlrpc - Support for xml-rpc library xmms - Check/Support for XMMS (X MultiMedia System) player. xosd - Sends display using the X On Screen Display library xpm - Support for XPM graphics format. xprint - Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ xsl - Check/Support flag for XSL library (version 1) xv - Adds in optional support for the Xvideo extension (an X API for video playback) xvid - Adds support for xvid.org's open-source mpeg-4 codec yahoo - Enable Yahoo Messenger IM protocol support yaz - Adds in optional support for the Z39.50 Protocol for Information Retrieval (YAZ) zeo - Adds support for Zope Enterprise Objects zlib - Adds support for zlib (de)compression # The following flags are NOT to be set or unset by users alpha - indicates that architecture is 64-bit Alpha amd64 - indicates that architecture is AMD64 arm - indicates that architecture is ARM hppa - indicates that architecture is HP PA-Risc ia64 - indicates that architecture is 64-bit Itanium mips - indicates that architecture is MIPS based ppc - indicates that architecture is PowerPC ppc64 - indicates that architecture is PowerPC64 ppc-macos - indicates that platform is Mac OS (Jaguar, Panther or Tiger) s390 - indicates that architecture is zSeries/s390 sh - indicates that architecture is SuperH sparc - indicates that architecture is (32-bit) Sparc x86 - indicates that architecture is x86