# # 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. See: voodoo4,voodoo5,voodoo6 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) bootcd - Used for building a package without manpages, extras for ISO image bootstrap - Used for not building addons to key packages during bootstrap build - Used for not building addons to key packages during bootstrap cups - Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) dga - Adds DGA Support (Xfree86 ) (DGA=Direct Graphic Access) directfb - Adds support for dev-libs/DirectFB (library for FB devices) doc - Adds extra documentation generated by fe.x gtk-doc dvd - Adds support for DVDs encode - Adds support for MEncoder esd - Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) evo - Adds support for evolution in gnumeric fbcon - Adds framebuffer support fbdev - Adds framebuffer support flash - Adds support for creating flash files using Ming gb - Adds support for Gnome Basic to gnumeric gd - Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) gdbm - Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries) ggi - Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) gif - Adds GIF image support glide - Adds media-libs/glide support to Xfree86 gnome - Adds GNOME support gpg - Adds support for gpg (GnuPG encryption system) 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) gtkhtml - Adds support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml guile - Adds support for dev-util/guile (interpreter for Scheme) 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 jpilot - Adds JPilot support (Software for the Palm Pilot) kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) lame - Adds support for the lame mp3 encoder lcms - Adds lcms support to media-gfx/imagemagick (Color management) ldap - Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) libg++ - Adds C++ modules in dev-db/postgresql (libpq++) libgda - Adds GNU Data Access (CORBA wrapper) support for gnumeric libmpeg3 - Adds mpeg support to mplayer libwww - Adds libwww support (General purpose WEB API) mcrypt - Adds mcrypt support to php (contains several encryption algorithms) mga - Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer mhash - Adds mhash library support to php (library of hash algorithms) mikmod - mmx - Adds support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors motif - Adds motif support (Open Motif) mozaccess-builtin - Adds text-to-speech and eventually braille support mozilla mozctl - Adds Pango like module to mozilla (???) mozilla - Adds mozilla support mozirc - Adds IRC (Internet Relay Chat) module to mozilla mozxmlterm - Adds Xterm like terminal with XML support to mozilla mta-ldap - Adds openldap support to postfix or exim mta-tls - Adds openssl support to postfix or exim mta-mysql - Adds mysql support to postfix or exim 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 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 quicktime - Adds support for OpenQuickTime readline ruby - Adds support/bindings for the Ruby language samba - Adds support for SAMBA sdl - Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library) slang slp snmp socks5 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 tcl tcltk tcpd - Adds support for TCP wrappers tetex - Adds support for teTeX truetype - Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts trusted ungif voodoo3 voodoo4 voodoo5 X - Adds support for XFree86 xface 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 zeo