# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.153 2004/05/04 18:16:36 solar Exp $ 3dfx - Adds support for 3dfx video cards to XFree86. See: voodoo3 3dnow - Adds support for 3dnow multimedia processor instructions 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 afs - Adds OpenAFS support (distributed file system) adns - Adds support for the adns DNS client library 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 atlas - Adds support for atlas instead of blas in dev-lang/R audiofile - Adds support for libaudiofile where applicable avi - Adds Win32 AVI support and also adds avifile (Library for avi) support 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) 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 build - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping. canna - Adds support for the Canna kana to kanji conversion engine caps - Use Linux capabilities library to control privileges. cdr - Adds support for CD writer hardware (e.g. compile the koncd app in kdemultimedia) cjk - Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) crypt - Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable cscope - Enables cscope interface -- in vim for example cups - Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) curl - Adds support for client-side URL transfer library debug - Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary acrosss packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES+=nostrip too. dedicated - Adds support for dedicated game servers dga - Adds DGA Support (Xfree86) (DGA=Direct Graphic Access) 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) dvb - Adds support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) dvd - Adds support for DVDs dvdr - Adds support for DVD writer hardware (e.g. in xcdroast) #embedded - Reserved flag for the embedded herd emacs - Adds support for GNU Emacs emacs-w3 - Add support for Emacs/W3 where applicable encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable esd - Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) 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 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. fftw - Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms 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 foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic printing driver database freetds - Adds support for the TDS protocol to connect to MSSQL/Sybase databases freewnn - Adds support for FreeWnn kana to kanji conversion engine gb - Adds support for Gnome Basic to gnumeric gd - Adds support for media-libs/libgd (to generate graphics on the fly) gd-external - Use the external version of libgd rather than the bundled one (possibly dangerous) gdbm - Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) ggi - Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) gif - Adds GIF image support ginac - Adds app-sci/ginac (symbolic math) support gmp - Adds support for dev-libs/gmp (GNU MP library) gnome - Adds GNOME support 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) hardened - activate Gentoo Hardened security improvements (kernel, gcc, glibc, binutils) icc - Add support for the Intel C++ Compiler (does _not_ set $CC) icc-pgo - Enable PGO data generation or use when use icc. icq - Enable ICQ IM protocol support imap - Adds support for IMAP imagemagick - Enables support for Imagemagick (image converter) imlib - Adds support for media-libs/imlib (Image loading and rendering library) innodb - Adds innodb support for mySQL (transaction support) informix - Adds support for Informix database 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 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) kerberos - Adds kerberos support krb4 - Adds optional kerberos 4 compatibility support ladcca - Adds Linux Audio Developer's Configuration and Connection API support (LADCCA) 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 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. mad - Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) maildir - Adds support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools matrox - Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer mbox - Adds support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools mcal - Adds support for MCAL calender system mikmod - Adds libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files memlimit - Adds memory usage limiting in supporting programs mmx - Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors motif - Adds motif support (x11-libs/openmotif x11-libs/lesstif) lesstif - Use lesstif over openmotif in cases where a program supports both mozilla - Adds mozilla support mpeg - Adds libmpeg3 support to various packages. mpi - Adds MPI (Message Passing Interface) layer to the apps that support it. msn - Enable MSN Messenger IM protocol support mule - Adds multi-language support to XEmacs mysql - Adds mySQL support nas - Adds support for network audio sound ncurses - Adds ncurses support (console display library) nhc98 - Use the nhc98 Haskell compiler instead of GHC if the package supports it netcdf - Enable NetCDF data format support nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) nocardbus - Disables cardbus support in pcmcia-cs nocd - Tells emerge to install all files required to run the application without a CD mounted oci8 - Adds Oracle Support odbc - Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity) offensive - Enables potentially offensive items in packages oggvorbis - Adds support for the OggVorbis audio encoding opengl - Adds support for OpenGL oscar - Enable Oscar (AIM/ICQ) IM protocol support oss - Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System) pam - Adds support PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) pcmcia - Adds support for PCMCIA slots/devices found on laptop computers pda - Adds support for portable devices. pdflib - Adds support for PDF (Portable Document Format) perl - Adds support/bindings for the Perl language. pic - Build Position Independent Code. Needed for prelink or the hardened toolchain pie - Enable support for Position Independent Executables plotutils - Adds plotutils support to gnuplot (library for 2-D vector graphics) png - Adds support for libpng (PNG images) pnp - Adds support for PNP in pcmcia-cs (Plug-N-Play) 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 python - Adds support/bindings for the Python language qt - Adds support for the Qt library. quicktime - Adds support for OpenQuickTime readline - enables support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that most everyone wants. ruby - Adds support/bindings for the Ruby language samba - Adds support for SAMBA 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 slang - Adds support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different) slp - Adds Service Locator Protocol support to CUPS snmp - Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available socks5 - Adds support for the socks5 proxy speex - Adds support for the speex audio codec spell - Adds dictionary support sse - fast floating point optimisation for Pentium class chips ssl - Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes things to be statically linked instead of dynamically sqlite - Adds support for sqlite - embedded sql database svga - Adds support for SVGAlib (graphics library) tcltk - Support for Tcl and/or Tk tcpd - Adds support for TCP wrappers tetex - Adds support for teTeX theora - Adds support for the Theora Video Compression Codec tiff - Adds support for the tiff image format truetype - Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts trusted - used by pcmcia-cs to see if a regular user can add and remove pcmcia cards 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) 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. wavelan - Tells pcmcia-cs that you want to use the built-in wvlan drivers instead of the Orinoco drivers wmf - Adds support for the wmf vector image format wxwindows - Adds support for wxWindows/wxGTK X - Adds support for XFree86 Xaw3d - Adds support of the 3d athena widget set xface - Adds xface support -- only in use for sylpheed and sylpheed-claws xinerama - Add support for XFree86's xinerama extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors xosd - Sends display using the X On Screen Display library xml - Check/Support flag for XML library (version 1) xml2 - Check/Support flag for XML library (version 2) xmms - Check/Support for XMMS (X MultiMedia System) player. 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 x86 - indicates that architecture is x86 ppc - indicates that architecture is PowerPC ppc64 - indicates that architecture is PowerPC64 sparc - indicates that architecture is (32-bit) Sparc alpha - indicates that architecture is 64-bit Alpha mips - indicates that architecture is MIPS based hppa - indicates that architecture is HP PA-Risc arm - indicates that architecture is ARM amd64 - indicates that architecture is AMD64