| # Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation |
| # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 |
| # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.510 2013/10/14 12:44:09 jlec Exp $ |
| |
| # Keep them sorted |
| |
| 3dfx - Enable support for Voodoo chipsets, also called as 3DFX and TDFX |
| 3dnow - Add support for 3dnow multimedia processor instructions |
| X - Add support for X11 |
| Xaw3d - Add support for the 3d athena widget set |
| a52 - Enable support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD |
| aac - Enable support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio |
| aalib - Add support for media-libs/aalib (ASCII-Graphics Library) |
| accessibility - Add support for accessibility (eg 'at-spi' library) |
| acl - Add support for Access Control Lists |
| acpi - Add support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| adns - Add support for asynchronous DNS resolution |
| afs - Add OpenAFS support (distributed file system) |
| aim - Enable AIM IM protocol support |
| alsa - Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) |
| altivec - Add support for optimizations for G4 and G5/ppc970 processors |
| ao - Use libao audio output library for sound playback |
| apache2 - Add Apache2 support |
| apm - Add APM (Advanced Power Management) support |
| aqua - Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI |
| atm - Enable Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol support |
| audiofile - Add support for libaudiofile where applicable |
| ayatana - Build in support for Ayatana notification using the libindicate or libappindicator plugin |
| avahi - Add avahi/Zeroconf support |
| bash-completion - Enable bash-completion support |
| bcmath - Add support for libbcmath |
| berkdb - Add support for sys-libs/db (Berkeley DB for MySQL) |
| bidi - Enable bidirectional language support |
| bindist - Flag to enable or disable options for prebuilt (GRP) packages (eg. due to licensing issues) |
| blas - Add support for the virtual/blas numerical library |
| bluetooth - Enable Bluetooth Support |
| bootstrap - !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during original system bootstrapping [make stage2] |
| boundschecking - Add the bounds checking patch by Haj Ten Brugge, this will DISABLE the hardened PIE+SSP patches |
| branding - Enable Gentoo specific branding |
| bsf - Enable support for Apache Bean Scripting Framework (dev-java/bsf) |
| 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 - Add support for calendars (not using mcal!) |
| canna - Add support for the Canna kana to kanji conversion engine |
| caps - Use Linux capabilities library to control privilege |
| cdb - Add support for the CDB database engine from the author of qmail |
| cdda - Add Compact Disk Digital Audio (Standard Audio CD) support |
| cddb - Access cddb servers to retrieve and submit information about compact disks |
| cdinstall - Copy files from the CD rather than asking the user to copy them, mostly used with games |
| cdparanoia - Enable cdparanoia (audio CD ripper) support |
| cdr - Add support for CD writer hardware |
| cgi - Add CGI script support |
| cjk - Add support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) |
| clamav - Add support for Clam AntiVirus software (usually with a plugin) |
| connman - Add support for net-misc/connman |
| coreaudio - Build the CoreAudio driver on Mac OS X systems |
| cracklib - Support for cracklib strong password checking |
| crypt - Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable |
| cscope - Enable cscope interface -- in vim for example |
| css - Enable reading of encrypted DVDs |
| ctype - Enable ctype functions |
| cups - Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) |
| curl - Add support for client-side URL transfer library |
| curlwrappers - Add support for using curl in streams |
| custom-cflags - Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported) |
| cvs - Enable CVS (Concurrent Versions System) integration |
| cxx - Build support for C++ (bindings, extra libraries, code generation, ...) |
| dbi - Enable dev-db/libdbi (database-independent abstraction layer) support |
| dbm - Add support for generic DBM databases |
| dbus - Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc) |
| 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 - Add support for dedicated game servers (some packages do not provide clients and servers at the same time) |
| dga - Add DGA (Direct Graphic Access) support for X |
| directfb - Add support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices) |
| djvu - Support DjVu, a PDF-like document format esp. suited for scanned documents |
| doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally |
| dri - Enable direct rendering: used for accelerated 3D and some 2D, like DMA |
| dts - Enable DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder support |
| dv - Enable support for a codec used by many camcorders |
| dvb - Add support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) |
| dvd - Add support for DVDs |
| dvdr - Add support for DVD writer hardware (e.g. in xcdroast) |
| eds - Enable support for Evolution-Data-Server (EDS) |
| emacs - Add support for GNU Emacs |
| emboss - Add support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite |
| encode - Add support for encoding of audio or video files |
| enscript - Add enscript support to colourize code stored in the repository |
| evo - Add support for mail-client/evolution |
| examples - Install examples, usually source code |
| exif - Add 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 - Add framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel |
| ffmpeg - Enable ffmpeg-based audio/video codec support |
| fftw - Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms |
| filecaps - Use Linux file capabilities to control privilege rather than set*id |
| firebird - Add support for the Firebird relational database |
| flac - Add support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| flatfile - Add dbm support for flat files |
| fltk - Add support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface |
| fontconfig - Support for configuring and customizing font access via media-libs/fontconfig |
| foomaticdb - Add support for the foomatic printing driver database |
| fortran - Add support for fortran |
| freetds - Add support for the TDS protocol to connect to MSSQL/Sybase databases |
| freewnn - Add support for FreeWnn kana to kanji conversion engine |
| frontbase - Add support for the frontbase sql server |
| ftp - Add FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support |
| gcj - Enable building with gcj (The GNU Compiler for the Javatm Programming Language) |
| gd - Add support for media-libs/gd (to generate graphics on the fly) |
| gdbm - Add support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) |
| geoip - Add geoip support for country and city lookup based on IPs |
| ggi - Add support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) |
| gif - Add GIF image support |
| gimp - Build a plugin for the GIMP |
| git - Enable git (version control system) support |
| glut - Build an OpenGL plugin using the GLUT library |
| gmp - Add support for dev-libs/gmp (GNU MP library) |
| gnome - Add GNOME support |
| gnome-keyring - Enable support for storing passwords via gnome-keyring |
| gnuplot - Enable support for gnuplot (data and function plotting) |
| gnutls - Add support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 support) |
| gphoto2 - Add digital camera support |
| gpm - Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) |
| gps - Add support for Global Positioning System |
| graphviz - Add support for the Graphviz library |
| gsl - Use the GNU scientific library for calculations |
| gsm - Add support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec |
| gstreamer - Add support for media-libs/gstreamer (Streaming media) |
| gtk - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) |
| gtkhtml - Add support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml |
| guile - Add support for the guile Scheme interpreter |
| gzip - Compress files with Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77) |
| handbook - Enable handbooks generation for KDE4. |
| hardened - Activate default security enhancements for toolchain (gcc, glibc, binutils) |
| hddtemp - Enable monitoring of hdd temperature (app-admin/hddtemp) |
| hdf5 - Add support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 |
| hscolour - Include coloured haskell sources to generated documentation (dev-haskell/hscolour) |
| ibm - Add support for IBM ppc64 specific systems |
| iconv - Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library |
| icq - Enable ICQ IM protocol support |
| icu - Enable ICU (Internationalization Components for Unicode) support, using dev-libs/icu |
| idn - Enable support for Internationalized Domain Names |
| ieee1394 - Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, camera, ...) |
| imagemagick - Enable support for Imagemagick (image converter) |
| imap - Add support for IMAP (Internet Mail Application Protocol) |
| imlib - Add support for imlib, an image loading and rendering library |
| infiniband - Enable Infiniband RDMA transport support |
| inifile - Add dbm support for .ini files |
| inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support |
| introspection - Add support for GObject based introspection |
| iodbc - Add support for iODBC library |
| ios - Enable support for Apple's iDevice with iOS operating system (iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc) |
| ipod - Enable support for iPod device access |
| ipv6 - Add support for IP version 6 |
| iwmmxt - Add support for optimizations for ARM iwMMXt instructions |
| jabber - Enable jabber IM protocol support |
| jack - Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit |
| java - Add support for Java |
| java6 - Use Java 1.6 to build package with || ( reduced deps, 1.6 features, source/target 1.6 ) |
| javascript - Enable javascript support |
| jbig - Enable jbig-kit support for tiff, Hylafax, ImageMagick, etc |
| jingle - Enable voice calls for jabber |
| jit - Enable just-in-time compilation for improved performance. May prevent use of some PaX memory protection features in Gentoo Hardened. |
| joystick - Add support for joysticks in all packages |
| jpeg - Add JPEG image support |
| jpeg2k - Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format |
| kde - Add support for KDE (K Desktop Environment) |
| kerberos - Add kerberos support |
| kolab - Add support for the Kolab groupware server |
| kontact - Enable support for the KDE personal information manager (kde-base/kdepim*) |
| ladspa - Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins |
| lame - Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3 encoding support |
| lapack - Add support for the virtual/lapack numerical library |
| lash - Add LASH Audio Session Handler support |
| latex - Add support for LaTeX (typesetting package) |
| lcms - Add lcms support (color management engine) |
| ldap - Add LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) |
| libass - SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support |
| libcaca - Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics |
| libedit - Use the libedit library (replacement for readline) |
| libffi - Enable support for Foreign Function Interface library |
| libnotify - Enable desktop notification support |
| libsamplerate - Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate |
| libwww - Add libwww support (General purpose WEB API) |
| lirc - Add 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 - Add linux lm_sensors (hardware sensors) support |
| lua - Enable Lua scripting support |
| lzma - Support for LZMA (de)compression algorithm |
| lzo - Enable support for lzo compression |
| m17n-lib - Enable m17n-lib support |
| mad - Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) |
| maildir - Add support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools |
| matroska - Add support for the matroska container format (extensions .mkv, .mka and .mks) |
| matrox - Add Matrox MGA support to mplayer |
| mbox - Add support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools |
| memlimit - Add memory usage limiting in supporting programs |
| mhash - Add support for the mhash library |
| migemo - Enable migemo support for Japanese |
| mikmod - Add libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files |
| milter - Add sendmail mail filter (milter) support |
| mime - Add MIME support |
| minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) |
| mmap - Add mmap (memory map) support |
| mms - Support for Microsoft Media Server (MMS) streams |
| mmx - Add support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors |
| mng - Add support for libmng (MNG images) |
| modplug - Add libmodplug support for playing SoundTracker-style music files |
| modules - Build the kernel modules |
| mono - Build Mono bindings to support dotnet type stuff |
| motif - Add support for the Motif toolkit |
| mozilla - Add support for the Mozilla web-browser |
| mp3 - Add support for reading mp3 files |
| mp4 - Support for MP4 container format |
| mpeg - Add libmpeg3 support to various packages |
| mpi - Add 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 |
| mssql - Add support for Microsoft SQL Server database |
| mtp - Enable support for Media Transfer Protocol |
| mule - Add 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 - Add mySQL Database support |
| mysqli - Add support for the improved mySQL libraries |
| nas - Add support for network audio sound |
| ncurses - Add ncurses support (console display library) |
| neXt - Enable neXt toolkit |
| neon - Enable optimization support for ARM NEON processors |
| netboot - Enable network booting |
| netcdf - Enable NetCDF data format support |
| networkmanager - Enable net-misc/networkmanager support |
| nis - Support for NIS/YP services |
| nls - Add 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 |
| nptl - Enable support for Native POSIX Threads Library, the new threading module (requires linux-2.6 or better usually) |
| nsplugin - Build plugin for browsers supporting the Netscape plugin architecture (that is almost any modern browser) |
| ocaml - Add support/bindings for the Ocaml language |
| ocamlopt - Enable ocamlopt support (ocaml native code compiler) -- Produces faster programs (Warning: you have to disable/enable it at a global scale) |
| oci8 - Add 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 - Add ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity) |
| offensive - Enable potentially offensive items in packages |
| ofx - Enable support for importing (and exporting) OFX (Open Financial eXchange) data files |
| ogg - Add support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac) |
| old-linux - Add support for linux-2.4 and older |
| openal - Add support for the Open Audio Library |
| openexr - Support for the OpenEXR graphics file format |
| opengl - Add support for OpenGL (3D graphics) |
| openmp - Build support for the OpenMP (support parallel computing), requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.2 built with USE="openmp" |
| oracle - Enable Oracle Database support |
| orc - Use dev-lang/orc for just-in-time optimization of array operations |
| osc - Enable support for Open Sound Control |
| oscar - Enable Oscar (AIM/ICQ) IM protocol support |
| oss - Add support for OSS (Open Sound System) |
| pam - Add support for 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 - Add support for PCMCIA slots/devices found on laptop computers |
| pcntl - Add support for process creation functions |
| pcre - Add support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions |
| pda - Add support for portable devices |
| pdf - Add general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags |
| perl - Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language |
| php - Include support for the PHP language |
| plasma - Build optional KDE plasma addons |
| plotutils - Add support for plotutils (library for 2-D vector graphics) |
| png - Add support for libpng (PNG images) |
| policykit - Enable PolicyKit authentication support |
| portaudio - Add support for the crossplatform portaudio audio API |
| posix - Add support for POSIX-compatible functions |
| postgres - Add support for the postgresql database |
| postscript - Enable support for the PostScript language (often with ghostscript-gpl or libspectre) |
| ppds - Add support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files |
| prefix - Defines if a Gentoo Prefix offset installation is used |
| prelude - Add support/bindings for the Prelude Intrusion Detection System |
| profile - Add support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild) |
| pulseaudio - Add support for PulseAudio sound server |
| python - Add optional support/bindings for the Python language |
| qdbm - Add support for the qdbm (Quick Database Manager) library |
| qmail-spp - Add support for qmail SMTP plugins |
| qt4 - Add support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 4.x |
| qt5 - Add support for the Qt 5 application and UI framework |
| quicktime - Add support for OpenQuickTime |
| radius - Add support for RADIUS authentication |
| raw - Add support for raw image formats |
| rdesktop - Add support for the remote desktop protocol, usually used to connect to Windows servers |
| readline - Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants |
| recode - Enable support for the GNU recode library |
| rss - Enable support for RSS feeds |
| ruby - Add support/bindings for the Ruby language |
| samba - Add support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) |
| sasl - Add support for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer |
| savedconfig - Use this to restore your config from /etc/portage/savedconfig ${CATEGORY}/${PN}. Make sure your USE flags allow for appropriate dependencies |
| scanner - Add support for scanner hardware (e.g. build the sane frontend in kdegraphics) |
| sdl - Add support for Simple Direct Layer (media library) |
| seamonkey - Add 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 |
| semantic-desktop - Cross-KDE support for semantic search and information retrieval |
| session - Add persistent session support |
| sharedmem - Add support for shared memory use |
| shorten - Add support for the shorten audio compressor |
| simplexml - Support for SimpleXML |
| skey - Enable S/Key (Single use password) authentication support |
| slang - Add support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different) |
| slp - Add Service Locator Protocol support |
| smartcard - Enable smartcard support |
| smp - Enable support for multiprocessors or multicore systems |
| sndfile - Add support for libsndfile |
| snmp - Add support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available |
| soap - Add support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) |
| sockets - Add support for tcp/ip sockets |
| socks5 - Add support for the socks5 proxy |
| sound - Enable sound support |
| source - Zip the sources and install them |
| sox - Add support for Sound eXchange (SoX) |
| speex - Add support for the speex audio codec (used for speech) |
| spell - Add dictionary support |
| sqlite - Add support for sqlite - embedded sql database |
| sqlite3 - Add support for sqlite3 - embedded sql database |
| sse - Fast floating point optimization for PentiumIII+ class chips |
| sse2 - Faster floating point optimization for SSE2 capable chips |
| sse3 - Faster floating point optimization for SSE3 capable chips |
| ssl - Add 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 |
| static-libs - Build static libraries |
| subversion - Enable subversion (version control system) support |
| suid - Enable setuid root program, with potential security risks |
| svg - Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) |
| svga - Add support for SVGAlib (graphics library) |
| sybase - Add support for the Sybase SQL Database Server |
| sybase-ct - Add support for Sybase-CT |
| symlink - Force kernel ebuilds to automatically update the /usr/src/linux symlink |
| syslog - Enable support for syslog |
| systemd - Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking |
| sysvipc - Support for System V-compatible inter-process communication |
| szip - Use the szip compression library |
| taglib - Enable tagging support with taglib |
| tcl - Add support the Tcl language |
| tcmalloc - Use the dev-util/google-perftools libraries to replace the malloc() implementation with a possibly faster one |
| tcpd - Add 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 - Add support for the Theora Video Compression Codec |
| threads - Add threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads |
| tidy - Add support for HTML Tidy |
| tiff - Add support for the TIFF image format |
| timidity - Build with Timidity++ (MIDI sequencer) support |
| tk - Add support for Tk GUI toolkit |
| tokenizer - Add support for the PHP file parser |
| truetype - Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts |
| uclibc - Enable uclibc specific patches and build or link uclibc |
| udev - Enable sys-fs/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc) |
| unicode - Add support for Unicode |
| upnp - Enable UPnP port mapping support |
| upnp-av - Enable UPnP audio/video streaming support |
| usb - Add USB support to applications that have optional USB support (e.g. cups) |
| v4l - Enable support for video4linux (using linux-headers or userspace libv4l libraries) |
| vala - Enable bindings for dev-lang/vala |
| 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 |
| vdpau - Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix acceleration interface |
| vhosts - Add 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 |
| vorbis - Add support for the OggVorbis audio codec |
| wayland - Enable dev-libs/wayland backend |
| wavpack - Add support for wavpack audio compression tools |
| wddx - Add support for Web Distributed Data eXchange |
| webkit - Add support for the WebKit HTML rendering/layout engine |
| wifi - Enable wireless network functions |
| wmf - Add support for the Windows Metafile vector image format |
| wxwidgets - Add support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit |
| x264 - Enable h264 encoding using x264 |
| xattr - Add 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 - Add xface support used to allow a small image of xface format to be included in an email via the header 'X-Face' |
| xft - Build with support for XFT font renderer (x11-libs/libXft) |
| xine - Add support for the XINE movie libraries |
| xinerama - Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which is mandatory if you work in multiple monitors setup |
| xinetd - Add support for the xinetd super-server |
| xml - Add support for XML files |
| xmlrpc - Support for xml-rpc library |
| xmp - Enable support for Extensible Metadata Platform (Adobe XMP) |
| xmpp - Enable support for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) formerly known as Jabber |
| xosd - Sends display using the X On Screen Display library |
| xpm - Add support for XPM graphics format |
| xscreensaver - Add support for XScreenSaver extension |
| xsl - Check/Support flag for XSL library (version 1) |
| xv - Add in optional support for the Xvideo extension (an X API for video playback) |
| xvid - Add support for xvid.org's open-source mpeg-4 codec |
| yahoo - Enable Yahoo Messenger IM protocol support |
| yaz - Add in optional support for the Z39.50 Protocol for Information Retrieval (YAZ) |
| zeroconf - Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) |
| zlib - Add support for zlib (de)compression |
| zsh-completion - Enable zsh completion support |
