| 3dfx |
Enable support for Voodoo chipsets, also called as 3DFX and TDFX |
| 3dnow |
Adds support for 3dnow multimedia processor instructions |
| a52 |
Enables support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD |
| aac |
Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio |
| 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 |
| adabas |
Adds support for the Adabas database engine |
| adns |
Adds support for the adns DNS client library |
| afs |
Adds OpenAFS support (distributed file system) |
| 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 |
| ao |
Use libao audio output library for sound playback |
| apache2 |
Add Apache2 support |
| apm |
Adds APM (Advanced Power Management) support |
| aqua |
Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI |
| arts |
Adds support for aRts: the KDE sound daemon |
| atm |
Enable Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol support |
| audiofile |
Adds support for libaudiofile where applicable |
| avahi |
Add avahi/Zeroconf support |
| ayatana |
Build in support for Ayatana notification using the libindicate or libappindicator plugin |
| bash-completion |
Enable bash-completion support |
| bcmath |
Adds support for libbcmath |
| 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) |
| birdstep |
Adds support for the Birdstep Database Server |
| blas |
Adds support for the virtual/blas numerical library |
| bluetooth |
Enables Bluetooth Support |
| bootstrap |
!!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used during original system bootstrapping [make stage2] |
| boundschecking |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for calendars (not using mcal!) |
| canna |
Adds support for the Canna kana to kanji conversion engine |
| caps |
Use Linux capabilities library to control privilege |
| cdb |
Adds support for the CDB database engine from the author of qmail |
| cdda |
Adds Compact Disk Digital Audio (Standard Audio CD) support |
| cddb |
Access cddb servers to retrieve and submit information about compact disks |
| cdinstall |
Copies files from the CD rather than asking the user to copy them, mostly used with games |
| cdparanoia |
Enables cdparanoia (audio CD ripper) support |
| cdr |
Adds support for CD writer hardware |
| cgi |
Add CGI script support |
| chasen |
Enable chasen (Japanese Morphological Analysis System) support |
| cjk |
Adds support for Multi-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) |
| clamav |
Adds support for Clam AntiVirus software (usually with a plugin) |
| 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 |
Enables cscope interface -- in vim for example |
| css |
Enables reading of encrypted DVDs |
| ctype |
Enables ctype functions |
| cups |
Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) |
| curl |
Adds support for client-side URL transfer library |
| curlwrappers |
Adds support for using curl in streams |
| custom-cflags |
Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported) |
| cvs |
Enable CVS (Concurrent Versions System) integration |
| cxx |
Builds support for C++ (bindings, extra libraries, code generation, ...) |
| db2 |
Enables support for IBM DB2 database server |
| dbase |
Adds support for dbase file format |
| dbi |
Enable dev-db/libdbi (database-independent abstraction layer) support |
| dbm |
Adds support for generic DBM databases |
| dbmaker |
Adds support for dbmaker database server |
| dbus |
Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc) |
| dbx |
Adds database abstraction layer |
| 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 |
Adds support for dedicated game servers (some packages do not provide clients and servers at the same time) |
| dga |
Adds DGA (Direct Graphic Access) support for X |
| directfb |
Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices) |
| djvu |
support DjVu, a PDF-like document format esp. suited for scanned documents |
| doc |
Adds 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 |
Enables DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder support |
| dv |
Enables support for a codec used by many camcorders |
| dvb |
Adds support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) |
| dvd |
Adds support for DVDs |
| dvdr |
Adds support for DVD writer hardware (e.g. in xcdroast) |
| eds |
Enables support for Evolution-Data-Server (EDS) |
| emacs |
Adds support for GNU Emacs |
| emboss |
Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite |
| empress |
Adds support for the Empress database server |
| empress-bcs |
Adds local access support for the Empress database server |
| encode |
Adds support for encoding of audio or video files |
| enscript |
Add enscript support to colourize code stored in the repository |
| esd |
Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) |
| esoob |
Adds support for Easysoft OOD database |
| evo |
Adds support for mail-client/evolution |
| examples |
Install examples, usually source code |
| exif |
Adds 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 |
Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel |
| ffmpeg |
Enable ffmpeg-based audio/video codec support |
| fftw |
Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms |
| firebird |
Adds support for the Firebird relational database |
| firefox |
Build against Firefox instead of Seamonkey/Mozilla |
| flac |
Adds support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| flatfile |
Adds dbm support for flat files |
| fltk |
Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface |
| fontconfig |
Support for configuring and customizing font access via media-libs/fontconfig |
| foomaticdb |
Adds support for the foomatic printing driver database |
| fortran |
Adds support for fortran (formerly f77) |
| freetds |
Adds support for the TDS protocol to connect to MSSQL/Sybase databases |
| freewnn |
Adds support for FreeWnn kana to kanji conversion engine |
| frontbase |
Adds support for the frontbase sql server |
| ftp |
Adds FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support |
| gcj |
Enable building with gcj (The GNU Compiler for the Javatm Programming Language) |
| gd |
Adds support for media-libs/gd (to generate graphics on the fly) |
| gdbm |
Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) |
| gd-external |
Use the external version of gd rather than the bundled one (possibly dangerous) |
| geoip |
Add geoip support for country and city lookup based on IPs |
| ggi |
Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) |
| gif |
Adds GIF image support |
| gimp |
Build a plugin for the GIMP |
| ginac |
Adds sci-mathematics/ginac (symbolic math) support |
| glut |
Build an OpenGL plugin using the GLUT library |
| gmp |
Adds support for dev-libs/gmp (GNU MP library) |
| gnome |
Adds GNOME support |
| gnome-keyring |
Enable support for storing passwords via gnome-keyring |
| gnuplot |
Enable support for gnuplot (data and function plotting) |
| gnustep |
Adds integration with GNUstep environment |
| gnutls |
Adds support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 support) |
| gphoto2 |
Adds digital camera support |
| gpm |
Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) |
| gps |
Adds support for Global Positioning System |
| graphviz |
Adds support for the Graphviz library |
| gsl |
Use the GNU scientific library for calculations |
| gsm |
Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec |
| gstreamer |
Adds support for media-libs/gstreamer (Streaming media) |
| gtk |
Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) |
| gtkhtml |
Adds support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml |
| guile |
Adds support for the guile Scheme interpreter |
| gzip |
Compress files with Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77) |
| hal |
Enable Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) support (WARNING: Try to avoid this. Deprecated method of accessing hardware.) |
| 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 |
Adds support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 |
| hscolour |
Includes 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 |
Enables support for Imagemagick (image converter) |
| imap |
Adds support for IMAP (Internet Mail Application Protocol) |
| imlib |
Adds support for imlib, an image loading and rendering library |
| infiniband |
Enable Infiniband RDMA transport support |
| inifile |
Adds dbm support for .ini files |
| innodb |
Adds innodb support for mySQL (transaction support) |
| interbase |
Adds support for Interbase database |
| iodbc |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for IP version 6 |
| iwmmxt |
Adds support for optimizations for ARM iwMMXt instructions |
| jabber |
Enable jabber IM protocol support |
| jack |
Adds support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit |
| java |
Adds support for Java |
| java5 |
Use Java 1.5 to build package || ( reduced deps, 1.5 features, source/target 1.5 ) |
| java6 |
Use Java 1.6 to build package with || ( reduced deps, 1.6 features, source/target 1.6 ) |
| javascript |
Enables javascript support |
| jbig |
enables jbig-kit support for tiff, Hylafax, ImageMagick, etc |
| jingle |
Enables 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 |
Adds JPEG image support |
| jpeg2k |
Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format |
| kde |
Adds support for KDE (K Desktop Environment) |
| kdeenablefinal |
EXPERIMENTAL: KDE ebuilds will use the enable-final flag, yielding compilation speedups at the cost of heavy mem usage and potentially causing problems. We strongly discourage setting this |
| kdehiddenvisibility |
Makes KDE symbols hidden by default, requires GCC 4.1 (experimental) |
| kdeprefix |
Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT} if enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise |
| kerberos |
Adds kerberos support |
| kolab |
Adds support for the Kolab groupware server |
| kontact |
Enable support for the KDE personal information manager (kde-base/kdepim*) |
| krb4 |
Adds optional kerberos 4 compatibility support |
| ladspa |
Enables the ability to support ladspa plugins |
| lame |
Prefer using LAME libraries for MP3 encoding support |
| lapack |
Adds support for the virtual/lapack numerical library |
| lash |
Adds LASH Audio Session Handler support |
| latex |
Adds support for LaTeX (typesetting package) |
| lcms |
Adds lcms support (color management engine) |
| ldap |
Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) |
| libcaca |
Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics |
| libedit |
Use the libedit library (replacement for readline) |
| libffi |
Enable support for Foreign Function Interface library |
| libgda |
Adds GNOME Data Access support |
| libnotify |
Enable desktop notification support |
| libsamplerate |
Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate |
| 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 |
| lm_sensors |
Adds linux lm_sensors (hardware sensors) support |
| lua |
Enable Lua scripting support |
| lzma |
Support for LZMA (de)compression algorithm |
| lzo |
Enables support for lzo compression |
| m17n-lib |
Enable m17n-lib support |
| mad |
Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) |
| maildir |
Adds support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools |
| mailwrapper |
Adds mailwrapper support to allow multiple MTAs to be installed |
| matroska |
Adds support for the matroska container format (extensions .mkv, .mka and .mks) |
| matrox |
Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer |
| mbox |
Adds support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools |
| mcve |
Support for the MCVE credit card payment system |
| memlimit |
Adds memory usage limiting in supporting programs |
| mhash |
Adds support for the mhash library |
| migemo |
Enables migemo support for Japanese |
| mikmod |
Adds libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files |
| milter |
Adds sendmail mail filter (milter) support |
| mime |
Adds MIME support |
| minimal |
Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) |
| mmap |
Adds mmap (memory map) support |
| mms |
Support for Microsoft Media Server (MMS) streams |
| mmx |
Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors |
| mng |
Adds support for libmng (MNG images) |
| modplug |
Adds libmodplug support |
| modules |
Build the kernel modules |
| mono |
Build Mono bindings to support dotnet type stuff |
| motif |
Adds support for the Motif toolkit |
| mozilla |
Adds support for the Mozilla web-browser |
| mp3 |
Add support for reading mp3 files |
| mp4 |
Support for MP4 container format |
| mpeg |
Adds libmpeg3 support to various packages |
| mpi |
Adds 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 |
| msql |
Adds support for the MSQL database server |
| mssql |
Adds support for Microsoft SQL Server database |
| mtp |
Enable support for Media Transfer Protocol |
| mule |
Adds 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 |
Adds mySQL Database support |
| mysqli |
Adds support for the improved mySQL libraries |
| nas |
Adds support for network audio sound |
| ncurses |
Adds ncurses support (console display library) |
| neon |
Enable optimization support for ARM NEON processors |
| netboot |
Enables network booting |
| netcdf |
Enable NetCDF data format support |
| networkmanager |
Enable net-misc/networkmanager support |
| neXt |
Enable neXt toolkit |
| nis |
Support for NIS/YP services |
| nls |
Adds 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 |
| nocxx |
Old flag -- USE=cxx from now on |
| 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 |
Adds support/bindings for the Ocaml language |
| ocamlopt |
Enables ocamlopt support (ocaml native code compiler) -- Produces faster programs (Warning: you have to disable/enable it at a global scale) |
| oci8 |
Adds 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 |
Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity) |
| offensive |
Enables potentially offensive items in packages |
| ofx |
Enable support for importing (and exporting) OFX (Open Financial eXchange) data files |
| ogg |
Adds support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac) |
| old-linux |
Add support for linux-2.4 and older |
| openal |
Adds support for the Open Audio Library |
| openexr |
Support for the OpenEXR graphics file format |
| opengl |
Adds 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 |
| osc |
Enables support for Open Sound Control |
| oscar |
Enable Oscar (AIM/ICQ) IM protocol support |
| oss |
Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System) |
| pam |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for PCMCIA slots/devices found on laptop computers |
| pcntl |
Adds support for process creation functions |
| pcre |
Adds support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions |
| pda |
Adds support for portable devices |
| pdf |
Adds general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags |
| perl |
Adds optional support/bindings for the Perl language |
| php |
Include support for the PHP language |
| plasma |
Build optional plasma widgets that require kde-base/libplasma |
| plotutils |
Add support for plotutils (library for 2-D vector graphics) |
| png |
Adds support for libpng (PNG images) |
| policykit |
Enable PolicyKit authentication support |
| portaudio |
Adds support for the crossplatform portaudio audio API |
| posix |
Adds support for POSIX-compatible functions |
| postgres |
Adds support for the postgresql database |
| ppds |
Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files |
| prefix |
Defines if a Gentoo Prefix offset installation is used |
| prelude |
Adds support/bindings for the Prelude Intrusion Detection System |
| profile |
Adds support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild) |
| pulseaudio |
Adds support for PulseAudio sound server |
| python |
Adds optional support/bindings for the Python language |
| qdbm |
Adds support for the qdbm (Quick Database Manager) library |
| qmail-spp |
Adds support for qmail SMTP plugins |
| qt3 |
Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 3.x |
| qt4 |
Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit version 4.x |
| quicktime |
Adds support for OpenQuickTime |
| radius |
Adds support for RADIUS authentication |
| raw |
Add support for raw image formats |
| rdesktop |
Adds support for the remote desktop protocol, usually used to connect to Windows servers |
| readline |
Enables support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants |
| recode |
Enables support for the GNU recode library |
| rss |
Enables support for RSS feeds |
| ruby |
Adds support/bindings for the Ruby language |
| samba |
Adds support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) |
| sapdb |
Adds support for SAP DB |
| sasl |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for scanner hardware (e.g. build the sane frontend in kdegraphics) |
| sdl |
Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library) |
| seamonkey |
Adds 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 |
Adds persistent session support |
| sharedext |
Adds support for building shared extensions in PHP |
| sharedmem |
Adds support for shared memory use |
| shorten |
Adds support for the shorten audio compressor |
| simplexml |
support for SimpleXML |
| skey |
Enable S/Key (Single use password) authentication support |
| slang |
Adds support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different) |
| slp |
Adds Service Locator Protocol support |
| smartcard |
Enables smartcard support |
| smp |
Enable support for multiprocessors or multicore systems |
| sndfile |
Adds support for libsndfile |
| snmp |
Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available |
| soap |
Adds support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) |
| sockets |
Adds support for tcp/ip sockets |
| socks5 |
Adds support for the socks5 proxy |
| solid |
Adds support for the Solid database engine |
| sound |
Enable sound support |
| source |
Zip the sources and install them |
| sox |
Adds support for Sound eXchange (SoX) |
| speex |
Adds support for the speex audio codec (used for speech) |
| spell |
Adds dictionary support |
| spl |
Adds support for the Standard PHP Library |
| sqlite |
Adds support for sqlite - embedded sql database |
| sqlite3 |
Adds 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 |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) |
| svga |
Adds support for SVGAlib (graphics library) |
| sybase |
Adds support for the Sybase SQL Database Server |
| sybase-ct |
Adds support for Sybase-CT |
| symlink |
Force kernel ebuilds to automatically update the /usr/src/linux symlink |
| syslog |
Enables support for syslog |
| sysvipc |
Support for System V-compatible inter-process communication |
| szip |
Use the szip compression library |
| taglib |
Enable tagging support with taglib |
| tcl |
Adds support the Tcl language |
| tcmalloc |
Use the dev-util/google-perftools libraries to replace the malloc() implementation with a possibly faster one |
| tcpd |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for the Theora Video Compression Codec |
| threads |
Adds threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads |
| tidy |
Adds support for HTML Tidy |
| tiff |
Adds support for the TIFF image format |
| timidity |
Build with Timidity++ (MIDI sequencer) support |
| tk |
Adds support for Tk GUI toolkit |
| tokenizer |
Adds support for the PHP file parser |
| truetype |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for Unicode |
| usb |
Adds USB support to applications that have optional USB support (e.g. cups) |
| v4l |
Enable support for video4linux (using linux-headers or userspace libv4l libraries) |
| v4l2 |
Enable support for video4linux (DEPRECATED: Use USE v4l for your package to enable v4l2 or libv4l support) |
| 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 |
| vhosts |
Adds 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 |
| voodoo3 |
Adds support for 3Dfx's Voodoo3 video chipset, else defaults to Voodoo4/5 support if not in USE |
| vorbis |
Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec |
| wavpack |
Add support for wavpack audio compression tools |
| wddx |
Adds support for Web Distributed Data eXchange |
| webkit |
Add support for the WebKit HTML rendering/layout engine |
| wifi |
Enable wireless network functions |
| win32codecs |
use win32codecs package for dll avi decoding support (wmv and what not) |
| wmf |
Adds support for the Windows Metafile vector image format |
| wxwidgets |
Adds support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit |
| wxwindows |
Adds support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit (deprecated, use wxwidgets) |
| X |
Adds support for X11 |
| x264 |
Enable h264 encoding using x264 |
| xattr |
Adds support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata) |
| Xaw3d |
Adds support for the 3d athena widget set |
| 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 |
Adds 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 |
Adds support for XPM graphics format |
| xprint |
Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ |
| xscreensaver |
Adds support for XScreenSaver extension |
| xsl |
Check/Support flag for XSL library (version 1) |
| xulrunner |
Build native browser integration against xulrunner instead of firefox or seamonkey |
| 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) |
| zeroconf |
Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) |
| zlib |
Adds support for zlib (de)compression |
| zsh-completion |
Enable zsh completion support |