# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.401 2008/10/02 01:13:09 jmbsvicetto Exp $ # Keep them sorted 3dfx - Enable support for Voodoo chipsets, also called as 3DFX and TDFX 3dnow - Adds support for 3dnow multimedia processor instructions X - Adds support for X11 Xaw3d - Adds support for 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 ao - Use libao audio output library for sound playback apache2 - Add Apache2 support apm - Adds APM (Advanced Power Management) support arts - Adds support for aRts: the KDE sound daemon atm - Enable Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol support audiofile - Adds support for libaudiofile where applicable avahi - Add avahi/Zeroconf 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 - Enables Bluetooth Support bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during original system bootstrapping [make stage2] boundschecking - Adds the bounds checking patch by Haj Ten Brugge, this will DISABLE the hardened PIE+SSP patches branding - Enable Gentoo specific branding build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping [make stage1] bzip2 - Use the bzlib compression library cairo - Enable support for the cairo graphics 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 privilege cdb - Adds support for the CDB database engine from the author of qmail cddb - Access cddb servers to retrieve and submit information about compact disks cdinstall - Copies files from the CD rather than asking the user to copy them, mostly used with games cdparanoia - Enables cdparanoia (audio CD ripper) support cdr - Adds support for CD writer hardware cgi - Add CGI script support chasen - Enable chasen (Japanese Morphological Analysis System) support cjk - Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) clamav - Adds support for Clam AntiVirus software (usually with a plugin) cracklib - Support for cracklib strong password checking crypt - Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable cscope - Enables cscope interface -- in vim for example css - Enables ripping of encrypted DVDs 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 cvs - Enable CVS (Concurrent Versions System) integration cxx - Builds support for C++ (bindings, extra libraries, code generation, ...) db2 - Enables support for IBM DB2 database server 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 - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml dedicated - Adds support for dedicated game servers (some packages do not provide clients and servers at the same time) dga - Adds DGA (Direct Graphic Access) support for X directfb - Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices) djvu - support DjVu, a PDF-like document format esp. suited for scanned documents doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc) dri - Enable direct rendering: used for accelerated 3D and some 2D, like DMA dts - Enables DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder support 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 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 encode - Adds support for encoding of audio or video files enscript - Add enscript support to colourize code stored in the repository esd - Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) esoob - Adds support for Easysoft OOD database evo - Adds support for mail-client/evolution examples - Install examples, usually source code exif - Adds support for reading EXIF headers from JPEG and TIFF images expat - Enable the use of dev-libs/expat for XML parsing fam - Enable FAM (File Alteration Monitor) support fastcgi - Add support for the FastCGI interface fbcon - Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel ffmpeg - Enable ffmpeg-based audio/video codec support fftw - Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms firebird - Adds support for the Firebird relational database firefox - Build against Firefox instead of Seamonkey/Mozilla flac - Adds support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec flatfile - Adds dbm support for flat files fltk - Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface fontconfig - Support for configuring and customizing font access via media-libs/fontconfig foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic printing driver database fortran - Adds support for fortran (formerly 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 (File Transfer Protocol) support gcj - Enable building with gcj (The GNU Compiler for the Javatm Programming Language) 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 for country and city lookup based on IPs ggi - Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) gif - Adds GIF image support gimp - Build a plugin for the GIMP 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 gnome-keyring - Enable support for storing passwords via gnome-keyring gnuplot - Enable support for gnuplot (data and function plotting) gnustep - Adds integration with GNUstep environment gnutls - Adds support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 support) gphoto2 - Adds digital camera support gpm - Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) gps - Adds support for Global Positioning System graphviz - Adds support for the Graphviz library gsl - Use the GNU scientific library for calculations gstreamer - Adds support for media-libs/gstreamer (Streaming media) gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) gtkhtml - Adds support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml guile - Adds support for the guile Scheme interpreter hal - Enable Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) support hardened - activate default security enhancements for toolchain (gcc, glibc, binutils) hddtemp - Enable monitoring of hdd temperature (app-admin/hddtemp) hdf5 - Adds support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 htmlhandbook - Enable HTML handbooks generation for KDE4. ibm - Add support for IBM ppc64 specific systems iconv - Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library icq - Enable ICQ IM protocol support idn - Enable support for Internationalized Domain Names ieee1394 - Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, camera, ...) imagemagick - Enables support for Imagemagick (image converter) imap - Adds support for IMAP (Internet Mail Application Protocol) imlib - Adds support for imlib, an image loading and rendering library 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 ipod - Enable support for iPod device access 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 java5 - Use Java 1.5 to build package || ( reduced deps, 1.5 features, source/target 1.5 ) java6 - Use Java 1.6 to build package || ( reduced deps, 1.6 features, source/target 1.6 ) javascript - Enables javascript support jbig - enables jbig-kit support for tiff, Hylafax, ImageMagick, etc jingle - Enables voice calls for jabber joystick - Add support for joysticks in all packages jpeg - Adds JPEG image support jpeg2k - Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) kdeenablefinal - EXPERIMENTAL: KDE ebuilds will use the enable-final flag, yielding compilation speedups at the cost of heavy mem usage and potentially causing problems. We strongly discourage setting this kdehiddenvisibility - Makes KDE symbols hidden by default, requires GCC 4.1 (experimental) kdeprefix - Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT} if enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise kerberos - Adds kerberos support kolab - Adds support for the Kolab groupware server krb4 - Adds optional kerberos 4 compatibility support ladcca - Adds Linux Audio Developer's Configuration and Connection API support (LADCCA) - DEPRECATED, will be replaced by lash ladspa - Enables the ability to support ladspa plugins lame - Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3 encoding support lapack - Adds support for the virtual/lapack numerical library lash - Adds LASH Audio Session Handler support latex - Adds support for LaTeX (typesetting package) lcms - Adds lcms support (color management engine) ldap - Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) libcaca - Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics libedit - Use the libedit library (replacement for readline) libgda - Adds GNOME Data Access support libnotify - Enable desktop notification support libsamplerate - Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate 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 lua - Enable Lua scripting support lzo - Enables support for lzo compression 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 (extensions .mkv, .mka and .mks) matrox - Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer mbox - Adds support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools 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 - Enables 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 minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) mmap - Adds mmap (memory map) support mmx - Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors mng - Adds support for libmng (MNG images) modplug - Adds libmodplug support mono - Build Mono bindings to support dotnet type stuff motif - Adds support for the Motif toolkit mozilla - Adds support for the Mozilla web-browser 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 mplayer - Enable mplayer support for playback or encoding 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 musepack - Enable support for the musepack audio codec musicbrainz - Lookup audio metadata using MusicBrainz community service (musicbrainz.org) mysql - Adds mySQL Database support mysqli - Adds support for the improved mySQL libraries nas - Adds support for network audio sound ncurses - Adds ncurses support (console display library) neXt - Enable neXt toolkit netboot - Enables network booting netcdf - Enable NetCDF data format support networkmanager - Enable net-misc/networkmanager support nis - Support for NIS/YP services nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) nntp - Add support for newsgroups (Network News Transfer Protocol) nocd - Install all files required to run the application without a CD mounted nocxx - Disable support for C++ (DON'T 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) nsplugin - Builds plugins for Netscape compatible browsers ocaml - Adds support/bindings for the Ocaml language ocamlopt - Enables ocamlopt support (ocaml native code compiler) -- Produces faster programs (Warning: you have to disable/enable it at a global scale) oci8 - Adds Oracle 8 Database Support oci8-instant-client - Use dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic as Oracle provider instead of requiring a full Oracle server install 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) old-linux - Add support for linux-2.4 and older openal - Adds support for the Open Audio Library openexr - Support for the OpenEXR graphics file format opengl - Adds support for OpenGL (3D graphics) oracle - Enable Oracle Database support osc - Enables support for Open Sound Control oscar - Enable Oscar (AIM/ICQ) IM protocol support oss - Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System) pam - Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip pch - Enable precompiled header support for faster compilation at the expense of disk space and memory (>=sys-devel/gcc-3.4 only) 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 pdf - Adds general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags perl - Adds support/bindings for the Perl language php - Include support for the PHP language 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 support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild) pulseaudio - Adds support for PulseAudio sound server python - Adds support/bindings for the Python language qdbm - Adds support for the qdbm (Quick Database Manager) library qmail-spp - Adds support for qmail SMTP plugins qt3 - Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 3.x qt4 - Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 4.x quicktime - Adds support for OpenQuickTime radius - Adds support for RADIUS authentication raw - Add support for raw image formats rdesktop - Adds support for the remote desktop protocol, usually used to connect to Windows servers readline - Enables support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants recode - Enables support for the GNU recode library rss - Enables support for RSS feeds ruby - Adds support/bindings for the Ruby language samba - Adds support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) sapdb - Adds support for SAP DB sasl - Adds support for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer savedconfig - Use this to restore your config from /etc/portage/savedconfig ${CATEGORY}/${PN}. Make sure you USE flags allow for approprate dependencies scanner - Adds support for scanner hardware (e.g. build the sane frontend in kdegraphics) sdl - Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library) seamonkey - Adds support for the Seamonkey web-browser 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 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 (Simple Object Access Protocol) 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 (used for speech) spell - Adds dictionary support spl - Adds support for the Standard PHP Library sqlite - Adds support for sqlite - embedded sql database sqlite3 - Adds support for sqlite3 - embedded sql database sse - fast floating point optimization for PentiumIII+ class chips sse2 - faster floating point optimization for SSE2 capable chips ssl - Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections startup-notification - Enable application startup event feedback mechanism static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically subversion - Enable subversion (version control system) support suid - Enable setuid root program, with potential security risks svg - Adds support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) 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 syslog - Enables support for syslog sysvipc - Support for System V-compatible inter-process communication szip - Use the szip compression library taglib - Enable tagging support with taglib tcl - Adds support the Tcl language tcpd - Adds support for TCP wrappers test - Workaround to pull in packages needed to run with FEATURES=test. Portage-2.1.2 handles this internally, so don't set it in make.conf/package.use anymore 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 timidity - Build with Timidity++ (MIDI sequencer) support tk - Adds support for Tk GUI toolkit 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 v4l2 - Enable video4linux2 support vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour; DO NOT USE THIS ON A GLOBAL SCALE as the severity of the meaning changes drastically vcd - Video CD support vhosts - Adds support for installing web-based applications into a virtual-hosting environment videos - Install optional video files (used in some games) vim-syntax - Pulls in related vim syntax scripts vnc - Enable VNC (remote desktop viewer) support 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 wavpack - Add support for wavpack audio compression tools wddx - Adds support for Web Distributed Data eXchange wifi - Enable wireless network functions win32codecs - use win32codecs package for dll avi decoding support (wmv and what not) wmf - Adds support for the Windows Metafile vector image format wxwindows - Adds support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit x264 - Enable h264 encoding using x264 xattr - Adds support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata) xcb - Support the X C-language Binding, a replacement for Xlib xcomposite - Enable support for the Xorg composite extension xemacs - Add support for XEmacs 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 xinetd - Add support for the xinetd super-server xml - Add support for XML files xmlrpc - Support for xml-rpc library xosd - Sends display using the X On Screen Display library xpm - Adds support for XPM graphics format xprint - Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ xscreensaver - Adds support for XScreenSaver extension xsl - Check/Support flag for XSL library (version 1) xulrunner - Build native browser integration against xulrunner instead of firefox or seamonkey 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) zeroconf - Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) zlib - Adds support for zlib (de)compression