What's the "%"s in USE flag?

z_sfeng · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: What's the "%"s in USE flag?

When I do emerge, I notice some USE flags are followed by a "%", and they are in yellow color.
What does the "%" mean? or is that some kind of syntax error?

subclasser · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 43 Location: Ulm, Germany

Hi there!

It's not an error, it's a feature ;-)

The USE flags you mentioned are new USE flags - USE flags which are added in the newest release.

Just take a look at the article covering the changes of portage-2.1 :-)

z_sfeng · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:54 am Post subject:

OK. I found the answer. It's a new feature which is explained in "man emerge"...

mark_alec · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

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