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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:07 am    Post subject: Masked USE flags on ARM Reply with quote

Several USE flags that, it seems like I might want to set, appear with an 'm' flag next to the in the output of euse. For example running `euse -i dvd`gives me

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[-     m] dvd - Adds support for DVDs


I am told that the m means that the USE flag is masked. Other USE flags that I may want to set that are shown like this are upnp and x264.

There are plenty of other flags like this but, most of them have an obvious reason why they don't apply on ARM (for example sse, multilib).

Can anyone tell me more about what this means, why these flags are masked, what happens if I set them in make.conf anyway etc?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

according to the profile, some useflags (dvd is among them) have not yet been tested. see /usr/portage/profiles/arch/arm/use.mask for details.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks.

Do you know if I can enable masked flags like DVD (though obviously it would be unsupported).
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes you can: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-376608.html

in a nutshell:
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echo "-dvd" >> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. Will that not be over-written by portage at some point though? I thought things in the /usr/portage/profiles directory and under get overwritten if they are changed and that generally, one should use the files in /etc/portage instead.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's why it says /etc/portage/profile/use.mask.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My bad, sorry, I mis-read it. :oops:
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