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-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-# Keep them sorted
-
-3dfx - Enable support for Voodoo chipsets, also called as 3DFX and TDFX
-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
-audit - Enable support for Linux audit subsystem using sys-process/audit
-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 - 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 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
-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/libav-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 (this is orthogonal to USE=caps which uses capabilities at runtime e.g. libcap)
-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)
-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
-jack - Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
-java - Add support for Java
-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-apps/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
-libav - Prefer libav over ffmpeg whenever both are supported
-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
-libressl - Use dev-libs/libressl as SSL provider (might need ssl USE flag), packages should not depend on this USE flag
-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
-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)
-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
-pie - Build programs as Position Independent Executables (a security hardening technique)
-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
-seccomp - Enable seccomp (secure computing mode) to perform system call filtering at runtime to increase security of programs
-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
-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 versions of dynamic libraries as well
-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 virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc)
-udisks - Enable storage management support (automounting, volume monitoring, etc)
-unicode - Add support for Unicode
-upnp - Enable UPnP port mapping support
-upnp-av - Enable UPnP audio/video streaming support
-upower - Enable power management 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)
-vaapi - Enable Video Acceleration API for hardware decoding
-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
-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