| 3dfx |
Enable support for Voodoo chipsets, also called as 3DFX and TDFX |
| 3dnow |
Use the 3DNow! instruction set |
| 3dnowext |
Use the Enhanced 3DNow! instruction 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 |
| avx |
Use the AVX instruction set |
| avx2 |
Use the AVX2 instruction set |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| kdeprefix |
Makes a KDE prefixed install into /usr/kde/${SLOT} if enabled or into /usr (FHS compatible) otherwise |
| 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 |
| mmx |
Use the MMX instruction set |
| mmxext |
Use the Extended MMX instruction set (intersection of Enhanced 3DNow! and SSE instruction sets) (3dnowext or sse in cpuinfo) |
| 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) |
| neon |
Enable optimization support for ARM NEON processors |
| netboot |
Enable 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| sqlite3 |
Add support for sqlite3 - embedded sql database |
| sse |
Use the SSE instruction set |
| sse2 |
Use the SSE2 instruction set |
| sse3 |
Use the SSE3 instruction set (pni in cpuinfo) |
| sse4_1 |
Use the SSE4.1 instruction set |
| ssl |
Add support for Secure Socket Layer connections |
| ssse3 |
Use the SSSE3 instruction set |
| 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 |
| wavpack |
Add support for wavpack audio compression tools |
| wayland |
Enable dev-libs/wayland backend |
| wddx |
Add 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 |
Add support for the Windows Metafile vector image format |
| wxwidgets |
Add support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit |
| X |
Add support for X11 |
| x264 |
Enable h264 encoding using x264 |
| xattr |
Add support for extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata) |
| Xaw3d |
Add 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 |
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 |