# # The purpose of this file is to record all possible use items available # in Gentoo at this time. # # Gentoo Developers: # * If you add a use item to an ebuild, please add it to this list # along with a short description. # * If you remove a use item from this list, make sure it is no longer used # in ANY ebuild. # * If you think you can write a better description of a use item, please do. # * If you see use items without a description, and know what it means, # please fill it in. # # # # Last updated: 11 Apr 2002 21:31:03 CDT # 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 (ASCI-Graphics Library) acl - Adds support for sys-apps/acl (XFS dump/restore utilities) afs - Adds OpenAFS support (distributed file system) alsa - Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) 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 avi - Adds Win32 AVI support and also adds avifile (Library for avi) support berkdb - Adds support for sys-libs/db (Berkeley DB for MySQL) 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 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 cups - Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) dga - Adds DGA Support (Xfree86 ) (DGA=Direct Graphic Access) directfb - Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices) doc - Adds extra documentation generated by fe.x gtk-doc dvd - Adds support for DVDs encode - Adds support for MEncoder or LaME encoder, wherever applicable esd - Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) evo - Adds support for evolution in gnumeric fbcon - Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel flash - Adds support for creating flash files using Ming freewnn - Adds support for FreeWnn kana to kanji conversion engine gb - Adds support for Gnome Basic to gnumeric gd - Adds support for media-libs/gd (to generate graphics on the fly) gdbm - Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) ggi - Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) ggz - Adds support for the Gnu Gaming Zone - http://ggz.sf.net gif - Adds GIF image support gnome - Adds GNOME support gphoto2 - Adds digital camera support gpm - Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) 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. beware that gtk+-2 support can be bad. gtkhtml - Adds support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml guile - Adds support for dev-util/guile (interpreter for Scheme) icc - Use the Intel C++ Compiler if the package supports it icc-pgo - Enable PGO data generation or use when use icc. imap - Adds support for IMAP imlib - Adds support for media-libs/imlib (Image loading and rendering library) innodb - Adds innodb support for mySQL (transaction support) ipv6 - Adds support for IP version 6 java - Adds support for Java jpeg - Adds JPEG image support kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) kerberos - Adds kerberos support 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) matrox - Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer maildir - Adds support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools mbox - Adds support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools mikmod - Adds libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files mmx - Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors motif - Adds motif support (Open Motif) mozilla - Adds mozilla support mpeg - Adds libmpeg3 support to various packages. 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) nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) nocardbus - Disables cardbus support in pcmcia-cs oci8 - Adds Oracle Support odbc - Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity) oggvorbis - Adds support for the OggVorbis audio encoding opengl - Adds support for OpenGL 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 - Adds PIC support to gcc (???) 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 python - Adds support/bindings for the Python language qt - Adds support for the Qt library. qtmt - Adds support for multithreaded QT, I believe (drobbins wrote this) 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) 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 spell - Adds dictionary support sse - fast floating point optimisation for Pentium class chips ssl - Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections static - Causes things to be statically linked instead of dynamically. 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 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 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 X - Adds support for XFree86 xface - Adds xface support -- only in use for sylpheed and sylpheed-claws 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) 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 sparc - indicates that architecture is (32-bit) Sparc sparc64 - indicates that architecture is 64-bit Sparc