USE flag index

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Global USE flags

Flag	Description
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)
alsa	Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
ao	Use libao audio output library for sound playback
apache2	Add Apache2 support
aqua	Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI
atm	Enable Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol support
apparmor	Enable support for the AppArmor application security system
appindicator	Build in support for notifications using the libindicate or libappindicator plugin
audiofile	Add support for libaudiofile where applicable
audit	Enable support for Linux audit subsystem using sys-process/audit
bash-completion	Enable bash-completion support
berkdb	Add support for sys-libs/db (Berkeley DB for MySQL)
bidi	Enable bidirectional language support
big-endian	Big-endian toolchain 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
branding	Enable Gentoo specific branding
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!)
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
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)
colord	Support color management using x11-misc/colord
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
css	Enable reading of encrypted DVDs
cups	Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)
curl	Add support for client-side URL transfer library
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
dist-kernel	Enable subslot rebuilds on Distribution Kernel upgrades
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)
elogind	Enable session tracking via sys-auth/elogind
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
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
fltk	Add support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface
fontconfig	Support for configuring and customizing font access via media-libs/fontconfig
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
ftp	Add FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support
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
geolocation	Enable physical position determination
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
gles2-only	Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL
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	Prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider (ineffective with USE=-ssl)
gphoto2	Add digital camera support
gpm	Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver)
gps	Add support for Global Positioning System
graphicsmagick	Build and link against GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick (requires USE=imagemagick if optional)
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)
gtk-doc	Build and install gtk-doc based developer documentation for dev-util/devhelp, IDE and offline use
gui	Enable support for a graphical user interface
guile	Add support for the guile Scheme interpreter
gzip	Compress files with Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77)
handbook	Enable handbooks generation for packages by KDE
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
headers-only	Install only C headers instead of whole package. Mainly used by sys-devel/crossdev for toolchain bootstrap.
heif	Enable support for ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF/HEIC image format
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
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 optional support for the ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick 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
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
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
jemalloc	Use dev-libs/jemalloc for memory management
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 software made by KDE, a free software community
kerberos	Add kerberos support
keyring	Enable support for freedesktop.org Secret Service API password store
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
llvm-libunwind	Use sys-libs/llvm-libunwind instead of sys-libs/libunwind
lm-sensors	Add linux lm-sensors (hardware sensors) support
lua	Enable Lua scripting support
lzma	Support for LZMA (de)compression algorithm
lz4	Enable support for lz4 compression (as implemented in app-arch/lz4)
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)
magic	Add support for file type detection via magic bytes (usually via libmagic from sys-apps/file)
maildir	Add support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools
man	Build and install man pages
matroska	Add support for the matroska container format (extensions .mkv, .mka and .mks)
mbox	Add support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools
memcached	Add support for memcached
mhash	Add support for the mhash library
mikmod	Add libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files
milter	Add sendmail mail filter (milter) 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
modules-sign	Cryptographically sign installed kernel modules (requires CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y in the kernel)
mono	Build Mono bindings to support dotnet type stuff
motif	Add support for the Motif toolkit
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
mssql	Add support for Microsoft SQL Server database
mtp	Enable support for Media Transfer Protocol
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
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
nsplugin	Build plugin for browsers supporting the Netscape plugin architecture (that is almost any modern browser)
nvenc	Add support for NVIDIA Encoder/Decoder (NVENC/NVDEC) API for hardware accelerated encoding and decoding on NVIDIA cards (requires x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers)
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"
opentype-compat	Convert BDF and PCF bitmap fonts to OTB wrapper format
opus	Enable Opus audio codec support
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
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
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 (polkit) 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
profile	Add support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild)
pulseaudio	Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
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
qt5	Add support for the Qt 5 application and UI framework
qt6	Add support for the Qt 6 application and UI framework
quicktime	Add support for OpenQuickTime
radius	Add support for RADIUS authentication
raw	Add support for raw image formats
rdp	Enables RDP/Remote Desktop support
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)
screencast	Enable support for remote desktop and screen cast using PipeWire
sctp	Support for Stream Control Transmission Protocol
sdl	Add support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
seccomp	Enable seccomp (secure computing mode) to perform system call filtering at runtime to increase security of programs
secureboot	Automatically sign efi executables using user specified key
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
skey	Enable S/Key (Single use password) authentication support
slang	Add support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different)
smartcard	Enable smartcard support
smp	Enable support for multiprocessors or multicore systems
snappy	Enable support for Snappy compression (as implemented in app-arch/snappy)
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
split-usr	Enable behavior to support maintaining /bin, /lib*, /sbin and /usr/sbin separately from /usr/bin and /usr/lib*
sqlite	Add support for sqlite - embedded sql database
ssl	Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security)
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
strip	Allow symbol stripping to be performed by the ebuild for special files
subversion	Enable subversion (version control system) support
suid	Enable setuid root program(s)
svg	Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
svga	Add support for SVGAlib (graphics library)
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
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
telemetry	Send anonymized usage information to upstream so they can better understand our users
test	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
test-rust	Enable important test dependencies that require Rust toolchain
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
truetype	Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
udev	Enable virtual/udev integration (device discovery, power and storage device support, etc)
udisks	Enable storage management support (automounting, volume monitoring, etc)
uefi	Enable support for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
unicode	Add support for Unicode
unwind	Add support for call stack unwinding and function name resolution
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
valgrind	Enable annotations for accuracy. May slow down runtime slightly. Safe to use even if not currently using dev-util/valgrind
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
verify-sig	Verify upstream signatures on distfiles
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
vulkan	Add support for 3D graphics and computing via the Vulkan cross-platform API
wavpack	Add support for wavpack audio compression tools
wayland	Enable dev-libs/wayland backend
webkit	Add support for the WebKit HTML rendering/layout engine
webp	Add support for the WebP image format
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 querying multi-monitor screen geometry through the Xinerama API
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
zeroconf	Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD)
zip	Enable support for ZIP archives
zlib	Add support for zlib (de)compression
zsh-completion	Enable zsh completion support
zstd	Enable support for ZSTD compression

Local USE flags

acct-user

git

gitea	Set home directory for git hosting via www-apps/gitea.
gitolite	Set home directory for git hosting via dev-vcs/gitolite or dev-vcs/gitolite-gentoo.

vdr

graphlcd	Prepare group membership for media-plugins/vdr-graphlcd.
legacy-homedir	Keep old home directory /var/vdr of an existing installation. When this useflag is cleared, the home directory is switched to FHS conformant /var/lib/vdr
remote	Prepare group membership for media-plugins/vdr-remote.
serial	Prepare group membership for media-plugins/vdr-serial.

app-accessibility

at-spi2-core

dbus-broker	Use DBus broker implementation instead of default DBus daemon

brltty

api	build brltty's application program interface
beeper	support the console tone generator
fm	support for the sound card synthesizer
louis	Use braille translator dev-libs/liblouis
midi	support the musical instrument digital interface
pcm	support for sound card digital audio
speech	speech support

emacspeak

espeak	Adds support for the espeak tts engine

espeak-ng

async	Enables asynchronous commands
klatt	Enables Klatt formant synthesis and implementation
l10n_ru	Builds extended Russian Dictionary file
l10n_zh	Builds extended Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) Dictionary files
man	Builds and installs manpage with app-text/ronn-ng
mbrola	Adds support for mbrola voices

flite

voices	Install synthetic voices

freetts

jsapi	build Java Speech API (JSAPI)
mbrola	Adds support for mbrola voices

orca

braille	Enable braille support

speech-dispatcher

espeak	Adds support for espeak-ng speech engine
flite	Adds support for flite speech engine

app-admin

clsync

apidoc	Provide doxygen generated API docs.
cgroups	Use cgroups to limit /dev access.
clsync	Build clsync binary. Most likely you want it. However it is possible to build only libclsync without clsync itself.
cluster	Enable clustering support (allows master-master clsync on multiple hosts). Not fully implemented yet.
control-socket	Enable AF_UNIX control socket support.
extra-debug	Enable extra debugging. This will hurt performance badly. Be ready for tons of output.
extra-hardened	Enable extra security checks. This will hurt performance.
gio	Enable GIO for FS monitoring (glib based alternative to inotify interface, not recommended; if both are compiled, may be selected at runtime).
highload-locks	Allows to use spinlocks for short delays instead of mutexes, but only on SMP systems.
lto	Build with link time optimization (LTO).
namespaces	Enable namespaces isolation.
socket-library	Build the control and monitoring socket library: libclsync.

conky

apcupsd	Enable support for sys-power/apcupsd
bundled-toluapp	Enable support for bundled toluapp. This only makes sense in combination with the lua-* flags
cmus	Enable monitoring of music played by media-sound/cmus
extras	Enable syntax highlighting for app-editors/nanoand app-editors/vim
ical	Enable support for events from iCalendar (RFC 5545) files using dev-libs/libical
intel-backlight	Enable support for Intel backlight
iostats	Enable support for per-task I/O statistics
irc	Enable support for displaying everything from an irc channel using net-libs/libircclient
lua-cairo	Enable if you want Lua Cairo bindings
lua-imlib	Enable if you want Lua Imlib2 bindings
lua-rsvg	Enable if you want Lua RSVG bindings
math	Enable support for glibc's libm math library
moc	Enable monitoring of music played by media-sound/moc
mpd	Enable monitoring of music controlled by media-sound/mpd
nvidia	Enable reading of nvidia card temperature sensors via x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
portmon	Enable support for tcp (ip4) port monitoring
thinkpad	Enable support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
webserver	Enable support to act as a webserver serving conkys output using net-libs/libmicrohttpd
xmms2	Enable monitoring of music played by media-sound/xmms2

conserver

freeipmi	Compile in FreeIPMI support via sys-libs/freeipmi

diradm

automount	Support for automount data in LDAP
irixpasswd	Support for storing separate IRIX passwords

doas

persist	Adds support for "persist" feature (experimental)

gkrellm

X	Build both the X11 gui (gkrellm) and the server (gkrellmd). Disabling this flag builds the server only
gnutls	Enable SSL support for mail checking with net-libs/gnutls (overrides 'ssl' USE flag)
lm-sensors	Enable monitoring sensors via sys-apps/lm-sensors
ntlm	Enable NTLM authentication for mail checking with net-libs/libntlm
ssl	Enable SSL support for mail checking with dev-libs/openssl

gtkdiskfree

gtk2	Support GTK+ 2.x instead of GTK+ 3.x

hddtemp

network-cron	Monthly cronjob to update hddtemp.db.

keepass

aot	Generate native code at build time, rather than runtime.

keepassxc

autotype	Add support to autotype the passwords into other applications
browser	Enables browser plugin support
keeshare	Enable KeeShare sharing integration
network	Enable network support
yubikey	Enable database unlocking via hardware keys supporting YubiKey-style HMAC-SHA1 protocol

lnav

pcap	Enable support for pcap files.

logcheck

cron	Adds file to enable hourly cron job to run logcheck"

logrotate

acl	Installs acl support
cron	Installs cron file
selinux	Installs Security Enhanced Linux support

logstash-bin

x-pack	Enable additional features (may need a license)

openrc-settingsd

systemd	Use the versions of dbus and polkit files provided by sys-apps/systemd

pass

X	Use x11-misc/xclip to copy passwords to the clipboard.
dmenu	Add support for x11-misc/dmenu with the 'passmenu' program.
git	Use dev-vcs/git for password revisions.
importers	Allow importing passwords from other password managers using various contributed scripts.

pass-otp

qrcode	Add support for qrcodes using media-gfx/qrencode

passwordsafe

qr	Enable QR code password display
xml	Enable XML import support
yubikey	Enable support for Yubikey

perl-cleaner

pkgcore	Use sys-apps/pkgcore instead of sys-apps/portage and app-portage/portage-utils.

puppet

augeas	Enable augeas support
diff	Enable diff support
hiera	Enable hiera support
rrdtool	Enable rrdtool support
shadow	Enable shadow support

puppet-agent

puppetdb	Adds puppetdb support

puppetserver

puppetdb	Adds support for connecting to puppetdb

pwgen

livecd	Install init script for root password scrambling on boot

rsyslog

clickhouse	Build the ClickHouse output module (requires net-misc/curl)
curl	Enable http_request() function in RainerScript (requires net-misc/curl)
dbi	Build the general database output module (requires dev-db/libdbi)
elasticsearch	Build the Elasticsearch output module (requires net-misc/curl)
gcrypt	Add support for encrypted log files using dev-libs/libgcrypt
gnutls	Build the GnuTLS network stream driver (requires net-libs/gnutls)
imhttp	Build the http input module (requires www-servers/civetweb)
impcap	Build the pcap input module (requires net-libs/libpcap)
kafka	Build the Apache Kafka input/output module (requires dev-libs/librdkafka)
kerberos	Build the GSSAPI input and output module (requires virtual/krb5)
kubernetes	Build the kubernetes modify plugin (requires net-misc/curl)
mdblookup	Build the MaxMind DB lookup message modify plugin using dev-libs/libmaxminddb
mongodb	Build the MongoDB output module (requires dev-libs/mongo-c-driver)
mysql	Build the MySQL database output module (requires virtual/mysql)
normalize	Build the normalize modify module (requires dev-libs/libee and dev-libs/liblognorm)
omhttp	Build the http output module (requires net-misc/curl)
omhttpfs	Build the httpfs output module (requires net-misc/curl)
omudpspoof	Build the udpspoof output module (requires net-libs/libnet)
openssl	Build the OpenSSL network stream driver (requires dev-libs/openssl)
postgres	Build the PostgreSQL database output module (requires dev-db/postgresql)
rabbitmq	Build the RabbitMQ output module (requires net-libs/rabbitmq-c)
redis	Build the Redis output module using (requires dev-libs/hiredis)
relp	Build the Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP) output module (requires dev-libs/librelp)
rfc3195	Build the rfc3195 input module (requires dev-libs/liblogging)
rfc5424hmac	Build the rfc5424hmac modify module (requires dev-libs/openssl)
snmp	Build the snmp modify and output module (requires net-analyzer/net-snmp)
ssl	Add support for encrypted client/server communication (requires net-libs/gnutls)
systemd	Build the journal input and output module (requires sys-apps/systemd)
usertools	Installs the user tools (rsgtutil, rscryutil...) corresponding to the set USE flags
uuid	Include UUIDs in messages (requires sys-apps/util-linux)
xxhash	Enable xxHash support in fmhash module (requires dev-libs/xxhash)
zeromq	Build the ZeroMQ input and output modules (requires net-libs/czmq)

sagan

libdnet	Add support for dev-libs/libdnet
pcap	Add support for network packet capture via net-libs/libpcap
redis	Add support for the Redis database via dev-libs/hiredis
smtp	Build witch SMTP (E-Mail) support

salt

cheetah	Enable support for dev-python/cheetah3
cherrypy	Enable support for using cherrypy.
genshi	Enable support for dev-python/genshi
gnupg	Enable support for gnupg via python-gnupg.
libcloud	Enable salt-cloud support via libcloud.
libvirt	Support managing virtual machines with app-emulation/libvirt.
mako	Add support for using the mako template engine for parsing salt states.
mongodb	Support returning data to a mongodb server.
neutron	Support the OpenStack neutron network service.
nova	Enable support for the OpenStack Nova API
openssl	Add support for using TLS via OpenSSL.
portage	Add support for package state enforcement using sys-apps/portage
raet	Add support for the new RAET transport.
redis	Support returning data to a redis database.
zeromq	Add support for the zeromq transport.

sudo

gcrypt	Use message digest functions from dev-libs/libgcrypt instead of sudo's
offensive	Let sudo print insults when the user types the wrong password
secure-path	Replace PATH variable with compile time secure paths
sendmail	Allow sudo to send emails with sendmail
sssd	Add System Security Services Daemon support

sysklogd

logger	Build the logger program
logrotate	use app-admin/logrotate for rotating logs rather than custom cron scripts

syslog-ng

amqp	Enable support for AMQP destinations
geoip2	Add support for geo lookup based on IPs via dev-libs/libmaxminddb
http	Enable support for HTTP destinations
json	Enable support for JSON template formatting via dev-libs/json-c
kafka	Enable support for Kafka destinations
mongodb	Enable support for mongodb destinations
pacct	Enable support for reading Process Accounting files (EXPERIMENTAL, Linux only)
redis	Enable support for Redis destinations
smtp	Enable support for SMTP destinations
spoof-source	Enable support for spoofed source addresses

sysstat

dcron	Adjust cronjobs to work properly under sys-process/dcron
lto	Build using Link Time Optimizations (LTO)

testdisk

ewf	Include ewf library
ntfs	Include the ability to read NTFS filesystems
reiserfs	Include reiserfs reading ability

tripwire

ssl	Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections
static	Builds the package statically
tools	Installs app-admin/mktwpol, providing scripts for the installation/setup of tripwire, including generating the tripwire policy file and maintenance of the tripwire database

ulogd

json	Build JSON output plugin to save packets in JSON file format
nfacct	Build NFACCT input plugin to support traffic accounting via nfnetlink_acct
nfct	Build NFCT input plugin to support stateful flow-based logging via nfnetlink_conntrack
nflog	Build NFLOG input plugin to support stateless packet-based logging via nfnetlink_log
pcap	Build PCAP output plugin to save packets in libpcap file format
ulog	Build ULOG input plugin to support deprecated packet-based logging via ULOG target

vault

webui	Enable the Web UI

webalizer

xtended	Include the 404 extension

webapp-config

portage	Propagate python_targets dependencies to sys-apps/portage

app-alternatives

awk

busybox	Symlink to sys-apps/busybox
gawk	Symlink to sys-apps/gawk
mawk	Symlink to sys-apps/mawk (warning: mawk is not fully POSIX-compliant)
nawk	Symlink to sys-apps/nawk

bc

gh	Symlink to bc-gh from sci-calculators/bc-gh
gnu	Symlink to GNU bc (sys-devel/bc)

bzip2

lbzip2	Symlink to app-arch/lbzip2.
pbzip2	Symlink to app-arch/pbzip2.
reference	Symlink to app-arch/bzip2.

cpio

gnu	Symlink to GNU cpio (app-arch/cpio)
libarchive	Symlink to bsdcpio from app-arch/libarchive

gzip

pigz	Symlink to app-arch/pigz.
reference	Symlink to app-arch/gzip.

lex

flex	Symlink to sys-devel/flex.
reflex	Symlink to sys-devel/reflex.

sh

bash	Symlink to app-shells/bash
busybox	Symlink to sys-apps/busybox
dash	Symlink to app-shells/dash
ksh	Symlink to app-shells/ksh
lksh	Symlink to lksh from app-shells/mksh
mksh	Symlink to mksh from app-shells/mksh

tar

gnu	Symlink to GNU tar (app-arch/tar)
libarchive	Symlink to bsdtar from app-arch/libarchive

yacc

bison	Symlink to sys-devel/bison.
byacc	Symlink to dev-util/byacc.
reference	Symlink to dev-util/yacc.

app-antivirus

clamav

clamapp	Build applications (clamscan, clamd, clamdscan, clamonacc (also has its own USE flag), sigtool, clambc, clamav-milter (also requires milter USE flag), clamdtop, clamsubmit, clamconf).
clamdtop	A Top like tool which shows what clamd is currently scanning amongst other things
clamonacc	Build the clamonacc on-access scanner
clamsubmit	A tool to submit false positives / negatives
experimental	Enable experimental features
libclamav-only	Bypass building of libfreshclam and the ClamAV CLI applications.
metadata-analysis-api	Enables collection of file property metadata using ClamAV API for analysis by ClamAV bytecode programs.
rar	RAR support
system-mspack	Use dev-libs/libmspack instead of the version bundled with ClamAV
xml	DMG and XAR support

clamtk

kde	Install the Dolphin plugin.
nautilus	Install the Nautilus plugin.
nemo	Install the Nemo plugin.
thunar	Install the Thunar plugin.

app-arch

cabextract

extras	Install experimental extra tools: wince_info and wince_rename for examining and processing Windows CE installation cabinet header files; cabinfo for examining the structure of a cab file.

createrepo_c

legacy	Build with support for legacy weakdeps and hashes (not recommended!)

dpkg

libmd	Use app-crypt/libmd library for message digest functions
update-alternatives	Install update-alternatives

drpm

lzip	Enable app-arch/lzip decompression support via app-arch/lzlib

dump

ermt	encrypted rmt support
uuid	Enable UUID support

engrampa

caja	Enable engrampa to integrate with mate-base/caja by providing entries in its context menu

file-roller

nautilus	Build contextual menu extension for gnome-base/nautilus.

gzip

pic	disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly

innoextract

debug	Enable debug logging and the --debug command-line option
lzma	Enable support for extracting lzma-compressed installers using app-arch/xz-utils

libarchive

blake2	Enable Blake2 hash support via app-crypt/libb2.
bzip2	Allow accessing bzip2-compressed archives through libbz2 (which comes with app-arch/bzip2). This only affects libarchive's native support: bsdtar will keep using bunzip2 as a filter if that's not built-in.
e2fsprogs	Use file flags from sys-fs/e2fsprogs headers instead of virtual/os-headers headers
nettle	Use dev-libs/nettle as crypto backend

p7zip

natspec	Use dev-libs/libnatspec to correctly decode non-ascii file names archived in Windows.
rar	Enable support for non-free rar decoder

rar

all-sfx	Install all SFX (Self-Extracting) files rather than just the native format (allows creation of Windows EXEs on Linux ELF systems)

tar

minimal	just install `tar`

unzip

natspec	Use dev-libs/libnatspec to correctly decode non-ascii file names archived in Windows.

wimlib

fuse	Use fuse libraries
iso	Install app-cdr/cdrtools in order to prepare iso images
ntfs	Use libntfs-3g library from sys-fs/ntfs3g
yasm	Use yasm assembler instead of nasm

xz-utils

extra-filters	Build additional filters that are not used in any of the default xz presets. This includes delta and BCJ coders, additional match finders and SHA256 checks.

zip

natspec	Use dev-libs/libnatspec to correctly decode non-ascii file names archived in Windows.

app-backup

amanda

ndmp	Support for the NDMP protocol
s3	Support for backing up to the Amazon S3 system
xfs	Support for backing up raw XFS filesystems using xfsdump

backup-manager

s3	Support for backing up to the Amazon S3 system

bacula

bacula-clientonly	Disable DB support, and just build a client
bacula-nodir	Disable building of director
bacula-nosd	Disable building of storage daemon
batch-insert	Enable batch insert into data base
ipv6	Support IPV6 protocol"
logwatch	Install support files for logwatch

bareos

ceph	Enable sys-cluster/ceph support
clientonly	Only install file-daemon (client)
director	Install director
glusterfs	Enable sys-cluster/glusterfs storage backend
jansson	JSON API support using dev-libs/jansson for director
lmdb	enable build of dev-db/lmdb support for faster accurate backup
logwatch	Install support files for sys-apps/logwatch
ndmp	Enable support for NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol)
scsi-crypto	Enable low level SCSI crypto support
storage-daemon	Install storage daemon (bareos-sd)
vmware	Enable bareos-fd VMware plugin

btrbk

lsbtr	Enable the lsbtr command-line tool
mbuffer	Use sys-block/mbuffer to enable progress bar and buffering/limiting functionality

dar

argon2	Enable password hashing algorithm from app-crypt/argon2
dar32	Enables --enable-mode=32 option, which replace infinite by 32 bit integers
dar64	Enables --enable-mode=64 option, which replace infinite by 64 bit integers
gcrypt	Enables strong encryption support
gpg	Enables usage of asymmetric encryption algorithms
rsync	Enables linking with net-libs/librsync for delta compression support

duplicity

s3	Support for backing up to the Amazon S3 system

rear

udev	Have ReaR start backup when attaching your USB drive.

snapper

lvm	Enable LVM thinprovisioned snapshots support sys-fs/lvm2
xattr	Add support for getting and setting POSIX extended attributes, through sys-apps/attr.

tsm

tsm-cit	IBM Tivoli Common Inventory Technology
tsm-hw	Difference snapshot support for NetApp and N-Series file servers
vmware	Install vmware data protection support

app-benchmarks

filebench

auto-completion	Enable command-line autocompletion using dev-libs/libtecla

httperf

idleconn	Build with the idleconn program

ioping

netdata	Add support for netdata

ramspeed

pic	Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower)

sysbench

aio	Add support for AIO.
attachsql	Add support for AttachSQL.
drizzle	Add support for Drizzles.
largefile	Add support for large files.

app-cdr

brasero

libburn	Enable dev-libs/libburn backend
nautilus	Build the gnome-base/nautilus extension
playlist	Enable support for playlists through dev-libs/totem-pl-parser
tracker	Enable audio playlist search using the app-misc/tracker indexer

cdemu

cdemu-daemon	Pull app-cdr/cdemu-daemon dependency, useful in chroot environment (bug #315491). Do not disable until you know what you are doing.

dvdisaster

debug	Enable memory debugging.

gaffitter

scripts	Install additional gaffitter scripts for external programs

mirage2iso

pinentry	Support app-crypt/pinentry password input backend.

app-containers

apptainer

network	Install network plug-ins
suid	Install SUID helper binary

buildah

btrfs	Enables dependencies for the "btrfs" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.

containerd

btrfs	Support for BTRFS snapshot driver
cri	Support for Kubernetes CRI
device-mapper	Support for device mapper snapshot driver

cri-o

btrfs	Enables dependencies for the "btrfs" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.
device-mapper	Enables dependencies for the "devicemapper" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.

crun

bpf	Enable in Kernel, eBPF (enhanced Berkley Packet Filter) support for managing device controllers.
criu	Enable CRIU based checkpoint/restore support

docker

btrfs	Enables dependencies for the "btrfs" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.
container-init	Makes the a staticly-linked init system tini available inside a container.
device-mapper	Enables dependencies for the "devicemapper" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.
overlay	Enables dependencies for the "overlay" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.

docker-credential-helpers

pass	Build pass helper for the pass utility.

lxc

io-uring	Enable io_uring support, and use io_uring instead of epoll
lto	Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)
tools	Build and install additional command line tools

podman

btrfs	Enables dependencies for the "btrfs" graph driver, including necessary kernel flags.
cgroup-hybrid	Use legacy (hybrid) cgroups instead of modern (unified) cgroups
fuse	Enables fuse dependencies (fuse-overlayfs is especially useful for rootless mode).
init	Enables catatonit dependency required for podman run --init.
rootless	Enables dependencies for running in rootless mode.
wrapper	Install wrapper which lets use podman for command `docker`

runc

kmem	Enable Kernel Memory Accounting.

skopeo

btrfs	Enables dependencies for the "btrfs" graph driver.

snapd

forced-devmode	Automatically disable application confinement if feature detection fails.

app-crypt

aespipe

asm	Enable assembly modules
cpu_flags_x86_padlock	Use VIA padlock instructions, detected at run time, code still works on non-padlock processors

ccid

twinserial	Enable twinserial reader

codecrypt

cryptopp	Build algorithms that need Crypto++ support dev-libs/crypto++

dehydrated

cron	Install cron job to sign/renew non-existent/changed/expiring certificates

eid-mw

dialogs	Enable "askaccess" dialog box, by using x11-libs/gtk+
gtk	All dialogs are available, by using x11-libs/gtk+
p11-kit	Support for app-crypt/p11-kit.

ekeyd

minimal	Only install the ekey-egd-linux service rather than the full ekeyd package.
munin	Install a plugin for net-analyzer/munin to graph statistical data from ekeyd.
usb	Build the libusb-based userland daemon for accessing the EntropyKey (alternative to the CDC USB driver). It is suggested to use this option by default, as the CDC driver in the kernel often seems to be fragile (or the gadget implementation on the EntropyKey is too buggy), and can cause various problems.

gnupg

smartcard	Build scdaemon software. Enables usage of OpenPGP cards. For other type of smartcards, try app-crypt/gnupg-pkcs11-scd. Bring in dev-libs/libusb as a dependency; enable scdaemon.
tofu	Enable support for Trust on First use trust model; requires dev-db/sqlite.
tools	Install extra tools (including gpgsplit and gpg-zip).
tpm	Enable TPM support via app-crypt/tpm2-tss and build tpm2d.
usb	Build direct CCID access for scdaemon; requires dev-libs/libusb.
user-socket	try a socket directory which is not removed by init manager at session end
wks-server	Install the wks-server

gnupg-pkcs11-scd

proxy	Build the gnupg-pkcs11-scd-prox

gpgme

common-lisp	Install common-lisp files

hashcat

brain	Enable the hashcat brain

heimdal

hdb-ldap	Adds support for LDAP as a database backend
lmdb	Add support for using dev-db/lmdb for lookup tables
otp	Adds support for one-time passwords

ima-evm-utils

tpm	Enable TPM support

johntheripper-jumbo

opencl	Build with opencl/GPU cracking support
pcap	Build with pcap support

keybase

fuse	Enable app-crypt/kbfs support

kstart

afs	Enables afs support which means you can acquire an afs token and set PAGs. It's recommended to set this USE if you need authenticated access to an AFS cell for your daemon/app.

libb2

native-cflags	Use CFLAGS as determined by configure script. These flags will enable all CPU specific features it find available, to further optimise the implementation. This discards any existing CFLAGS set in make.conf or similar.

libsecret

tpm	Enable Trusted Platform Module support via app-crypt/tpm2-tss

libu2f-host

systemd	Use user ACLs rather than plugdev group to give user access to the HIDRAW device.

mit-krb5

doc	Creates and installs the API and implementation documentation. This is only useful if you want to develop software which depends on kerberos
keyutils	Enable for the keyring ccache using keyutils
lmdb	Add support for using dev-db/lmdb for lookup tables
openldap	Enable support for ldap as a database backend
pkinit	Enable pkinit support for the initial ticket

mkp224o

pcre	Search with a regex instead of prefix/suffix matching

ophcrack

tables	Require the additional tables used to carry out cracking (app-crypt/ophcrack-tables)

ophcrack-tables

vistafree	Installs the free Vista ophcrack tables
xpfast	Installs the fast XP ophcrack tables
xpsmall	Installs the small free XP ophcrack tables

pinentry

efl	Build dev-libs/efl based pinentry

qca

botan	Enable botan plugin
gcrypt	Enable gcrypt plugin
gpg	Enable GnuPG plugin
logger	Enable logger plugin
nss	Enable NSS plugin
pkcs11	Enable PKCS#11 plugin
sasl	Enable SASL plugin
softstore	Enable softstore plugin

seahorse

ldap	Enable seahorse to manipulate GPG keys on a LDAP server.

swtpm

fuse	Support sys-fs/fuse based /dev/tpm interface

tpm-tools

pkcs11	Build Token data management utilities based on OpenCryptoki's (dev-libs/opencryptoki) PKCS#11 implementation.

tpm2-pkcs11

fapi	Enable feature API backend

tpm2-tools

fapi	Enable feature API tools

tpm2-totp

plymouth	Add sys-boot/plymouth support

tpm2-tss

fapi	Enable feature API (requires openssl as crypto backend)
mbedtls	Use net-libs/mbedtls as crypto engine
openssl	Use dev-libs/openssl as crypto engine
policy	Enable policy library (requires openssl as crypto backend)

veracrypt

asm	Enable assembly for optimization

zulucrypt

kwallet	Enable encrypted storage of passwords with kde-frameworks/kwallet
udev	Whether udev will be consulted when deciding if a volume is system or not

app-dicts

aspell-be

classic	Support classic spelling by default

gwaei

hunspell	Enable app-text/hunspell spellchecking and morphological analysis
mecab	Enable app-text/mecab support

myspell-pt

preao	Use the pre ortographic agreement version of the dictionary

app-doc

csound-manual

html	Install HTML documentation

devmanual

offline	Use alternative minimal stylesheet instead of Tyrian theme

doxygen

clang	support for sys-devel/clang assisted parsing
dot	allow to create dot graphs using media-gfx/graphviz
doxysearch	build doxyindexer and doxysearch.cgi

kicad-doc

html	Generate documentation in HTML format
pdf	Generate documentation in PDF format

linuxfromscratch

htmlsingle	Install all-on-one-page HTML version.

pms

html	Generate and install PMS as .html as well
twoside	Enable two-sided layout suitable for printing

pms-bin

html	Install PMS as .html as well

tldp-howto

html	Install multi-chapter HTML docs
htmlsingle	Install all-on-one-page HTML docs
pdf	Install pdf docs
text	Install plain-text docs

app-editors

bluefish

gucharmap	Enable gucharmap dictionary plugin
spell	Enable spell checking capabilities via enchant library

emacs

athena	Enable the MIT Athena widget set (x11-libs/libXaw)
dynamic-loading	Enable loading of dynamic libraries (modules) at runtime
games	Support shared score files for games
gfile	Use gfile (dev-libs/glib) for file notification
gmp	Use the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (dev-libs/gmp) instead of the bundled mini-gmp subset
gsettings	Use gsettings (dev-libs/glib) to read the system font name
gzip-el	Compress bundled Emacs Lisp source
harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz as text shaping engine
imagemagick	Use media-gfx/imagemagick for image processing
jit	Compile with Emacs Lisp native compiler support via libgccjit
json	Compile with native JSON support using dev-libs/jansson
libxml2	Use dev-libs/libxml2 to parse XML instead of the internal Lisp implementations
mailutils	Retrieve e-mail using net-mail/mailutils instead of the internal movemail substitute
small-ja-dic	Generate a smaller-size Japanese dictionary (saves about 5 MiB in installed image)
source	Install C source files and make them available for find-function
threads	Add elisp threading support
toolkit-scroll-bars	Use the selected toolkit's scrollbars in preference to Emacs' own scrollbars
tree-sitter	Support the dev-libs/tree-sitter parsing library
wide-int	Prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit). This option has an effect only on architectures where "long" and "long long" types have different size.
xwidgets	Enable use of GTK widgets in Emacs buffers (requires GTK3)

fe

sendmail	Send mail after editor abend

featherpad

X	Link application against X11 libraries which adds support for virtual desktop awareness and tab DND

gedit-plugins

charmap	Insert special characters just by clicking on them
git	Shows document changes related to git's HEAD
terminal	Embed a terminal in the bottom pane

gnome-latex

latexmk	Install dev-tex/latexmk (used by default for the build tools)
rubber	Install dev-tex/rubber (can be used for the build tools)

gvim

crypt	Use dev-libs/libsodium for crypto support
cscope	Enable cscope interface
netbeans	Include netbeans external editor integration support
racket	Enable support for Scheme using dev-scheme/racket

helix

grammar	Build and install grammar language files

jasspa-microemacs

nanoemacs	Build NanoEmacs instead of MicroEmacs

joe

xterm	Enable full xterm clipboard support

leafpad

emacs	Enable Emacs key theme

mousepad

shortcuts	Build the "shortcuts" plugin

nano

debug	Enable debug messages and assert warnings. Note that these will all be sent straight to stderr rather than some logging facility.
justify	Enable justify/unjustify functions for text formatting.
magic	Add magic file support (sys-apps/file) to automatically detect appropriate syntax highlighting
minimal	Disable all fancy features, including ones that otherwise have a dedicated USE flag (such as spelling).

neovim

lto	Build with Link Time Optimization (LTO)
nvimpager	Install nvimpager symlink to less.sh macro

okteta

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

pluma-plugins

bracketcompletion	Auto complete bracket pairs
codecomment	Comment code blocks
smartspaces	Insert smart spaces
synctex	Enable synctex support for pdflatex
terminal	Embed a terminal in the bottom pane

qhexedit2

gui	Install Qt5 hex editor

tea

aspell	Enable spellchecking using app-text/aspell
hunspell	Enable spellchecking using app-text/hunspell
qml	Enable support for plugins using QML

vim

X	Link console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm
crypt	Use dev-libs/libsodium for crypto support
cscope	Enable cscope interface
racket	Enable support for Scheme using dev-scheme/racket
terminal	Enable terminal emulation support
vim-pager	Install vimpager and vimmanpager links

vis

tre	more memory efficient regex search using dev-libs/tre

xemacs

athena	Chooses the MIT Athena widget set
bignum	Support for OpenSSL bignum implementation
dnd	Enables support for the x11-libs/dnd drag-n-drop library
eolconv	Support detection and translation of newline conventions
mule	Add multi-language support to XEmacs
pop	Support POP for mail retrieval
xim	Enable X11 XiM input method

app-emacs

auctex

preview-latex	Use bundled preview-latex

bbdb

tex	Install plain TeX support files
vm	Add support for app-emacs/vm
wanderlust	Add support for app-emacs/wanderlust

calfw

howm	Add support for the app-emacs/howm note-taking tool

elscreen

wanderlust	Include support for app-emacs/wanderlust

emacs-common

games	Support shared score files for games
gsettings	Install schema file for gsettings (dev-libs/glib)

emacs-w3m

gzip-el	Compress bundled Emacs Lisp source

magit

libgit	Use libgit (app-emacs/libegit2)

mu-cite

bbdb	Include support for app-emacs/bbdb

org-mode

contrib	Install user-contributed files
odt-schema	Install non-free schema files for OpenDocument Text exporter

remember

bbdb	Include support for app-emacs/bbdb
planner	Include support for app-emacs/planner

slime

xref	Install xref.lisp cross-referencing tool

sly

xref	Install xref.lisp cross-referencing tool

vm

bbdb	Include support for app-emacs/bbdb

wanderlust

bbdb	Include support for app-emacs/bbdb

wikipedia-mode

outline-magic	Enable support for outline-mode extensions (app-emacs/outline-magic)

app-emulation

86Box

dinput	Enable legacy Dinput mode instead of Xinput for older controllers.
experimental	Enable hardware from devbranch, which may be unstable or unusable.
fluidsynth	Enable MIDI support through media-sound/fluidsynth.
munt	Enable MIDI MT-32 support through media-libs/munt-mt32emu.
new-dynarec	Enable new dynamic recompiler from PCem 15, which should provide an even better emulation speed.

aranym

clipboard	Enable bidirectional clipboard transfer between the host and FreeMiNT
jit	Build Just-In-Time compiler variant with increased performance
lilo	Enable support for directly booting kernels such as Linux
osmesa	Allow images to be rendered in memory using the host CPU
pmmu	Build full PMMU variant, required for running mainline Linux
standard	Build standard (no JIT or PMMU) variant

bochs

3dnow	Enable support for emulating 3DNow! instructions (incomplete)
avx	Enable support for emulating Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
debugger	Enable debugger (slows down emulation)
gdb	Enable support for the remote GDB stub
x86-64	Enable support for emulation of 64-bit CPUs

crossover-bin

capi	Enable ISDN support via CAPI
opencl	Enable OpenCL support
osmesa	Add support for OpenGL in bitmaps using libOSMesa
pcap	Support packet capture software (e.g. wireshark)

dosemu

fluidsynth	use media-sound/fluidsynth for MIDI emulation

dxvk

crossdev-mingw	Use sys-devel/crossdev for the toolchain rather than dev-util/mingw64-toolchain (requires manual setting up)
d3d10	Enable support for DirectX 10 (d3d10.dll)
d3d11	Enable support for DirectX 11 (d3d11.dll)
d3d9	Enable support for DirectX 9 (d3d9.dll)
dxgi	Enable support for the DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (dxgi.dll)

faudio

dumpvoices	FAudio dumps buffer data to individual files with RIFF/XWMA headers, usable with players like ffplay/testxwma.

fs-uae

fmv	Enable support for CD32 FMV (full motion video)
glew	Enable support for The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (media-libs/glew)

fs-uae-launcher

lha	Enable LHA archive support

fuse

backend-X	Use X11 rendering backend
backend-fbcon	Use framebuffer rendering backend
backend-gtk3	Use Gtk+ rendering backend
backend-sdl	Use SDL rendering backend
backend-svga	Use svgalib rendering backend
memlimit	Add compile-time memory usage limiting

fuse-utils

gcrypt	Use dev-libs/libgcrypt for low-level crypto of some features, including logfiles.

grub-xen-host

pvh	Build an additional grub bin for pvh.

hyperd

libvirt	Enable support for KVM via libvirt
xen	Enable support for the Xen Hypervisor

libcacard

passthrough	Enable smartcard passthrough support via sys-apps/pcsc-lite

libguestfs

erlang	Build Erlang bindings
fuse	Enable image mount support via sys-fs/fuse
inspect-icons	Use media-gfx/icoutils for accessing/inspecting icon file within images
libvirt	Use app-emulation/libvirt to manipulate VMs
systemtap	Use dev-util/systemtap to inspect VM via "probes"

libspectrum

gcrypt	Use dev-libs/libgcrypt for low-level crypto of some features, including logfiles.

libvirt

dtrace	Enable dtrace support via dev-util/systemtap
firewalld	DBus interface to iptables/ebtables allowing for better runtime management of your firewall.
fuse	Allow LXC to use sys-fs/fuse for mountpoints
glusterfs	Enable GlusterFS support via sys-cluster/glusterfs
iscsi	Allow using an iSCSI remote storage server as pool for disk image storage
iscsi-direct	Allow using libiscsi for iSCSI storage pool backend
libssh	Use net-libs/libssh to communicate with remote libvirtd hosts, for example: qemu+libssh://server/system
libssh2	Use net-libs/libssh2 to communicate with remote libvirtd hosts, for example: qemu+libssh2://server/system
libvirtd	Builds the libvirtd daemon as well as the client utilities instead of just the client utilities
lvm	Allow using the Logical Volume Manager (sys-fs/lvm2) as pool for disk image storage
lxc	Support management of Linux Containers virtualisation (app-containers/lxc)
nfs	Allow using Network File System mounts as pool for disk image storage
numa	Use NUMA for memory segmenting via sys-process/numactl and sys-process/numad
openvz	Support management of OpenVZ virtualisation (openvz-sources)
parted	Allow using real disk partitions as pool for disk image storage, using sys-block/parted to create, resize and delete them.
pcap	Support auto learning IP addreses for routing
qemu	Support management of QEMU virtualisation (app-emulation/qemu)
rbd	Enable rados block device support via sys-cluster/ceph
virt-network	Enable virtual networking (NAT) support for guests. Includes all the dependencies for NATed network mode. Effectively any network setup that relies on libvirt to setup and configure network interfaces on your host. This can include bridged and routed networks ONLY if you are allowing libvirt to create and manage the underlying devices for you. In some cases this requires enabling the 'netcf' USE flag (currently unavailable).
virtualbox	Support management of VirtualBox virtualisation (app-emulation/virtualbox)
wireshark-plugins	Build the net-analyzer/wireshark plugin for the Libvirt RPC protocol
xen	Support management of Xen virtualisation (app-emulation/xen)
zfs	Enable ZFS backend storage sys-fs/zfs

nemu

network-map	Adds possibility of exporting network map to SVG
ovf	Adds support for OVA/OVF import
remote-api	Adds API for remote control
spice	Adds Spice protocol support
vnc-client	Adds support for external VNC client

open-vm-tools

deploypkg	Build deploypkg plugin
dnet	Enable support for nicinfo
doc	Generate API documentation
fuse	Enable vmblock-fuse/vmhgfs-fuse
gtkmm	Compile with Gtkmm and sigc++ (Recommended)
multimon	Enable multimon (Requires X)
resolutionkms	Build the linux/unix resolutionkms module
vgauth	Build vgauth

pcem

networking	Enable support for emulation of network cards.

punes

cg	Add support for Nvidia CG Toolkit

q4wine

ico	Enable ico support via media-gfx/icoutils
iso	Support unprivileged mounting of ISO9660 images via sys-fs/fuseiso
wineappdb	Enable Wine AppDB browser support

qemu

accessibility	Adds support for braille displays using brltty
aio	Enables support for Linux's Async IO
alsa	Enable alsa output for sound emulation
bpf	Enable eBPF support for RSS implementation.
capstone	Enable disassembly support with dev-libs/capstone
curl	Support ISOs / -cdrom directives via HTTP or HTTPS.
fdt	Enables firmware device tree support
fuse	Enables FUSE block device export
glusterfs	Enables GlusterFS cluster fileystem via sys-cluster/glusterfs
gnutls	Enable TLS support for the VNC console server. For 1.4 and newer this also enables WebSocket support. For 2.0 through 2.3 also enables disk quorum support.
io-uring	Enable efficient I/O via sys-libs/liburing.
iscsi	Enable direct iSCSI support via net-libs/libiscsi instead of indirectly via the Linux block layer that sys-block/open-iscsi does.
jemalloc	Enable jemalloc allocator support
jpeg	Enable jpeg image support for the VNC console server
multipath	Enable multipath persistent reservation passthrough via sys-fs/multipath-tools.
ncurses	Enable the ncurses-based console
nfs	Enable NFS support
numa	Enable NUMA support
pin-upstream-blobs	Pin the versions of BIOS firmware to the version included in the upstream release. This is needed to sanely support migration/suspend/resume/snapshotting/etc... of instances. When the blobs are different, random corruption/bugs/crashes/etc... may be observed.
pipewire	Enable pipewire output for sound emulation
plugins	Enable qemu plugin API via shared library loading.
png	Enable png image support for the VNC console server
pulseaudio	Enable pulseaudio output for sound emulation
rbd	Enable rados block device backend support, see https://docs.ceph.com/en/mimic/rbd/qemu-rbd/
sdl	Enable the SDL-based console
sdl-image	SDL Image support for icons
slirp	Enable TCP/IP in hypervisor via net-libs/libslirp
spice	Enable Spice protocol support via app-emulation/spice
ssh	Enable SSH based block device support via net-libs/libssh2
static	Build the User and Software MMU (system) targets as well as tools as static binaries
static-user	Build the User targets as static binaries
systemtap	Enable SystemTAP/DTrace tracing
usb	Enable USB passthrough via dev-libs/libusb
usbredir	Use sys-apps/usbredir to redirect USB devices to another machine over TCP
vde	Enable VDE-based networking
vhost-net	Enable accelerated networking using vhost-net, see https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VhostNet
virgl	Enable experimental Virgil 3d (virtual software GPU)
virtfs	Enable VirtFS via virtio-9p-pci / fsdev. See https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
vte	Enable terminal support (x11-libs/vte) in the GTK+ interface
xattr	Add support for getting and setting POSIX extended attributes, through sys-apps/attr. Requisite for the virtfs backend.
xen	Enables support for Xen backends

runv

libvirt	Enable support for KVM via libvirt
xen	Enable support for the Xen Hypervisor

ski

debug	enable extra binary emulation debugging via sys-libs/binutils-libs

spice

smartcard	Enable smartcard remoting using app-emulation/libcacard

uade

fuse	Enable sys-fs/fuse uadefs frontend for on-the-fly WAV conversion

vice

ethernet	Enable ethernet emulation
headless	Include the headless variant of the emulator
mpg123	Enable mp3@64 cartridge support
parport	Enable parallel port SID support
pci	Enable PCI device discovery using sys-apps/pciutils

virt-manager

policykit	Enables sys-auth/polkit authentication support, required when using app-emulation/libvirt with PolicyKit authentication
sasl	Depend on the proper libraries needed to connect to SASL-enabled libvirtd instances (e.g. Kerberos-protected instances).

virt-viewer

libvirt	Support connecting to virtual machines managed by libvirt.
spice	Support connecting to SPICE-enabled virtual machines.
vnc	Support connecting to VNC-enabled virtual machines.
vte	Enable terminal support (x11-libs/vte) in the GTK+ interface

virt-what

dmi	Use sys-apps/dmidecode to read firmware data

virtualbox

dtrace	Install dtrace Extension Pack
headless	Build without any graphic frontend
lvm	Build VBoxVolInfo that needs devicemapper from sys-fs/lvm2.
pax-kernel	Apply patch needed for pax enabled kernels.
sdk	Enable building of SDK
udev	Controls installation of special USB udev rules.
vboxwebsrv	Build and install the VirtualBox webservice
vde	Support for VDE networking via net-misc/vde

vkd3d

spirv-tools	Enable SPIRV shader debugging support using dev-util/spirv-tools

vkd3d-proton

crossdev-mingw	Use sys-devel/crossdev for the toolchain rather than dev-util/mingw64-toolchain (requires manual setting up)
extras	Install extra tools and demos in /usr/lib/vkd3d-proton

wine-gecko

shared	Install pre-unpacked files which do not need to be copied into the Wine prefix

wine-mono

shared	Install pre-unpacked files which do not need to be copied into the Wine prefix

wine-proton

crossdev-mingw	Use sys-devel/crossdev for the toolchain rather than dev-util/mingw64-toolchain (requires manual setting up)
gecko	Enable mshtml support using app-emulation/wine-gecko
mono	Enable .NET support using app-emulation/wine-mono
osmesa	Enable off-screen rendering (OpenGL in bitmaps) support
perl	Install helpers that require perl (winedump/winemaker)
sdl	Enable gamepad support using media-libs/libsdl2
vkd3d	Enable DirectX 12 support using app-emulation/vkd3d

wine-staging

capi	Enable ISDN support using net-libs/libcapi
crossdev-mingw	Use sys-devel/crossdev for the toolchain rather than dev-util/mingw64-toolchain (requires manual setting up)
dos	Pull in games-emulation/dosbox to run DOS applications
gecko	Enable mshtml support using app-emulation/wine-gecko
mingw	Build PE files using a MinGW toolchain for better compatibility
mono	Enable .NET support using app-emulation/wine-mono
netapi	Enable support for configuring remote shares using net-fs/samba
opencl	Enable OpenCL support
osmesa	Enable off-screen rendering (OpenGL in bitmaps) support
pcap	Support packet capture software (e.g. wireshark)
perl	Install helpers that require perl (winedump/winemaker)
samba	Pull in net-fs/samba with winbind for NTLM auth support
sdl	Enable gamepad support using media-libs/libsdl2
wow64	Enable running 32bit applications without 32bit ELF multilib by mapping to 64bit calls (experimental/WIP, USE=abi_x86_32 is recommended for complete support)

wine-vanilla

capi	Enable ISDN support using net-libs/libcapi
crossdev-mingw	Use sys-devel/crossdev for the toolchain rather than dev-util/mingw64-toolchain (requires manual setting up)
dos	Pull in games-emulation/dosbox to run DOS applications
gecko	Enable mshtml support using app-emulation/wine-gecko
mingw	Build PE files using a MinGW toolchain for better compatibility
mono	Enable .NET support using app-emulation/wine-mono
netapi	Enable support for configuring remote shares using net-fs/samba
opencl	Enable OpenCL support
osmesa	Enable off-screen rendering (OpenGL in bitmaps) support
pcap	Support packet capture software (e.g. wireshark)
perl	Install helpers that require perl (winedump/winemaker)
samba	Pull in net-fs/samba with winbind for NTLM auth support
sdl	Enable gamepad support using media-libs/libsdl2
vkd3d	Enable DirectX 12 support using app-emulation/vkd3d
wow64	Enable running 32bit applications without 32bit ELF multilib by mapping to 64bit calls (experimental/WIP, USE=abi_x86_32 is recommended for complete support)

winetricks

rar	Pull in app-arch/unrar for extraction of rar-compressed game files

x48

readline	Enables support for libreadline

xe-guest-utilities

xenstore	Use xenstore binaries bundled by Citrix instead of building app-emulation/xen-tools

xen

boot-symlinks	Symlink xen.gz variants in /boot, disable on fat filesystems
efi	Adds efi boot support, requires LDFLAG -melf_x86_64 for amd64
flask	Enable the Flask XSM module from NSA

xen-tools

api	Build the C libxenapi bindings
hvm	Enable support for hardware based virtualization (VT-x,AMD-v)
ipxe	Enable ipxe support
ovmf	Enable support to boot UEFI guest vm, needed by hvm
pygrub	Install the pygrub boot loader
qemu	Enable IOEMU support via the use of qemu-dm
qemu-traditional	Build the old qemu traditional device model (useful only if you cannot change to the new device model e.g. Windows VMs)
rombios	Enable rombios support, needed by ipxe
screen	Enable support for running domain U console in an app-misc/screen session
system-ipxe	Using sys-firmware/ipxe instead of the bundled one
system-qemu	Using app-emulation/qemu instead of the bundled one
system-seabios	Using sys-firmware/seabios instead of the bundled one

xtrs

ls-dos	Install LS-DOS disk images for Model 4P

app-eselect

eselect-php

fpm	Enable the FastCGI Process Manager SAPI

eselect-wine

xdg	Set XDG_DATA_DIRS to use the selected wine.desktop, allows e.g. 'xdg-open my.exe' for file managers

app-forensics

afflib

fuse	Enable extra fuse thingies
qemu	Enable qemu stuff
s3	Enable support for Amazon S3

aide

curl	Use curl for http,https and ftp backends
e2fs	Enable support for checking file attributes on ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems

chkrootkit

cron	Install cron script for weekly rootkit scans

honggfuzz

clang	Enable clang support (pull sys-libs/blocksruntime dependency).

libewf

bfio	Enables libbfio for chaining file in file handling
fuse	Enable fuse support for ewfmount
uuid	Enable UUID support in the ewftools

lynis

cron	Install /etc/cron.* files

sleuthkit

aff	Enable extra aff formats
ewf	Enable libewf support

volatility3

crypt	support plugins that decrypt passwords, password hashes, etc.
disasm	support plugins that perform malware analysis and disassemble code
jsonschema	improve error messages regarding improperly configured ISF files
leechcore	support memory acquisition via leechcore
snappy	support AVMLs native compression format
yara	support YARA pattern matching engine

yara

cuckoo	Enable cockoo module
dex	Enable dex module
dotnet	Enable dotnet module
macho	Enable macho module
magic	Enable magic module
profiling	Enable rules profiling
python	Pulls in python binding via dev-python/yara-python

app-i18n

fcitx

autostart	Enable XDG-compatible autostart of Fcitx
enchant	Enable Enchant backend (using app-text/enchant) for spelling hinting
gtk2	Install input method module for GTK+ 2
gtk3	Install input method module for GTK+ 3
opencc	Enable OpenCC engine (using app-i18n/opencc) for converter between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
pango	Enable support for x11-libs/pango
table	Install table input methods for Simplified Chinese
xkb	Enable support for XKB (required for fcitx-xkb, fcitx-xkbdbus, part of fcitx-keyboard)

fcitx-libpinyin

dictionary-manager	Install dictionary manager

fcitx-rime

configuration_tool	Install configuration tool

fcitx-unikey

macro-editor	Install macro editor

freewnn

uum	Build uum

ibus

emoji	Enable support for Emoji
gtk2	Enable the GTK-2 input method module
gtk3	Enable the GTK-3 input method module
gtk4	Enable the GTK-4 input method module
unicode	Enable support for Unicode choice

ibus-handwrite

zinnia	Enable support for app-i18n/zinnia

ibus-libpinyin

boost	Compile against dev-libs/boost libraries
opencc	Enable support for app-i18n/opencc

ibus-pinyin

boost	Enable support for dev-libs/boost

im-chooser

xfce	Enable support for XFCE panel

imsettings

xfconf	Enable support for xfce-base/xfconf

librime

debug	Enable debugging (including logging of input of RIME input methods)

mozc

fcitx4	Enable support for app-i18n/fcitx 4
gui	Install graphical user interface tool (mozc_tool)
ibus	Enable support for app-i18n/ibus
renderer	Enable native candidate window

pyzy

boost	Enable support for dev-libs/boost
doc	Generate API documentation
opencc	Enable support for app-i18n/opencc

rime-data

extra	Install extra packages

scim

gtk3	Enable support for x11-libs/gtk+:3

scim-anthy

gtk3	Enable support for x11-libs/gtk+:3
kasumi	Use Anthy dictionary maintenance tool (app-dicts/kasumi)

tomoe

hyperestraier	Enable support for app-text/hyperestraier

uim

anthy	Enable support for app-i18n/anthy
eb	Enable support for dev-libs/eb
gtk2	Enable support for x11-libs/gtk+:2
skk	Enable support for app-i18n/skk-jisyo

app-laptop

hdapsd

libconfig	Require dev-libs/libconfig to allow the daemon to read a configuration file at startup

ibam

gkrellm	Enable building of app-admin/gkrellm module

laptop-mode-tools

apm	Add APM (Advanced Power Management) support

pbbuttonsd

ibam	Enable support for Intelligent Battery Monitoring
macbook	Enable support for the Macbook and Macbook Pro

thinkfan

atasmart	include libatasmart support to get disc temperature
nvidia	allow thinkfan to read GPU temperature from the proprietary nVidia driver
yaml	use YAML format for config file

tp_smapi

hdaps	Install a compatible HDAPS module

app-metrics

collectd

contrib	Install user-contributed files in the doc directory
filecaps	When set collectd daemon will have set required capabilities to run most plugins even if run as unprivileged user
java	Must be set (workaround for java-pkg-opt-2 eclass limitation) when you want java or genericjmx plugin
udev	Enable optional udev usage in disk plugin; Required for smart plugin
xfs	Enable optional capability to filter on XFS file system in df plugin; Requires XFS headers from sys-fs/xfsprogs

app-misc

FreeSSM

small-resolution	Build the app for small resolution screeens

blink1

mini-tool	Build and install command-line mini-tool blink1-mini-tool (normally used for embedded devices)
server	Build and install REST API server (currently hard-coded to TCP port 8080)
tool	Build and install command-line tool blink1-tool

broot

X	X11 clipboard interaction

byobu

screen	Use app-misc/screen as the default backend

ca-certificates

cacert	Include root/class3 certs from CAcert (https://www.cacert.org/)

carbon-c-relay

lz4	add support for LZ4 compressed transport
oniguruma	use dev-libs/oniguruma as regex implementation
pcre2	use dev-libs/libpcre2 as regex implementation
snappy	add support for Snappy compressed transport

ddccontrol

pci	enable direct PCI memory access (the setuid ddcpci util)

ddcutil

drm	Use x11-libs/libdrm for more verbose diagnostics.
usb-monitor	Adds support for monitors attached via USB.
user-permissions	Adds a udev rules to allow non-root users in the i2c group to access the /dev/i2c-* devices. If usb-monitor is selected, users will need to be added to the video group to access the USB monitor. Otherwise, only root will be able to use ddcutil.

digitemp

ds2490	Build support for the ds2490 sensor
ds9097	Build support for the ds9097 sensor
ds9097u	Build support for the ds9097u sensor

fastfetch

chafa	Enables text/graphics renderer with media-gfx/chafa
ddcutil	Use app-misc/ddcutil to query monitor settings
opencl	Enables OpenCL support
osmesa	Enables offscreen rendering support from media-libs/mesa
pci	Enables reading GPU via sys-apps/pciutils
vulkan	Enables reading GPU via media-libs/vulkan-loader
xfce	Enables support for XFCE config
xrandr	Enables support for Xrandr

g810-led

hidapi	Use dev-libs/hidapi instead of virtual/libusb for talking to the device (advertised to be faster)

geoclue

modemmanager	Enable geolocation through 3G or GPS enabled hardware through net-misc/modemmanager.
zeroconf	Enable retrieval of GPS location from Android devices with https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GeoclueShare

gramps

geo	Enable rendering of geographical data using sci-geosciences/osm-gps-map
rcs	Adds support for family tree archives via dev-vcs/rcs
reports	All external software that is needed for graphical reports will be installed

graphlcd-base

fontconfig	Add support for media-libs/fontconfig font names.
freetype	Add support for media-libs/freetype.
graphicsmagick	Add support for media-gfx/graphicsmagick.
imagemagick	Add support for media-gfx/imagemagick.

irtrans-irserver

mono	Enable mono support

jdupes

dedupe	Enable deduplication support
lowmem	Enable support for low-memory operation

jp

jpp	Install jpp which is an extended superset of the jp CLI for JMESPath

jpipe

jp-symlink	Install a jp symlink that points to jpipe.
jpp-symlink	Install a jpp symlink that points to jpipe.

jq

oniguruma	Use dev-libs/oniguruma for regular expression support

kryoflux-dtc

demos	Install example floppy game files.
fast-firmware	Install fast firmware instead of slow firmware.

lcd4linux

apm	Enable the APM plugin.
asterisk	Enable the Asterisk plugin.
button-exec	Enable the Button plugin, to execute something on keypress.
cpuinfo	Enable the cpuinfo plugin.
dbus	Enable the dbus plugin.
diskstats	Enable the diskstats plugin.
dmalloc	Enable dmalloc for debugging.
dvb	Enable support for the DVB plugin.
event	Enable the event plugin.
exec	Enable the exec plugin, to read output from external programs.
fifo	Enable the FIFO (First-In, First-Out) plugin.
file	Enable the file plugin, to read from input from files.
gps	Enable the gps plugin, for reading gps coordinates.
hddtemp	Enable the hddtemp plugin, to read from the hddtemp daemon.
huawei	Enable the huawei plugin, to read from a huawei device.
i2c-sensors	Enable the i2c_sensors plugin, to read sensor data.
iconv	Enable the iconv plugin, to convert between encodings.
isdn	Enable the isdn plugin, to get information about ISDN.
kvv	Enable the kvv plugin, to get realtime train schedule from the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund.
loadavg	Enable the loadavg plugin, to get stats load
meminfo	Enable the meminfo plugin, to get memory statistics.
mpd	Enable the mpd plugin, to read from the Music Player Daemon.
mpris-dbus	Enable the mpris plugin, to read data via dbus for mpris.
mysql	Enable the mysql plugin, to get mysql database information.
netdev	Enable the netdev plugin, to get interface statistics.
netinfo	Enable the netinfo plugin, to get more interface statistic.
outb	Enable raw i/o access.
pop3	Enable the pop3 plugin, to get notified about new mails.
proc-stat	Enable the proc_stat plugin, to read data from the proc file system.
python	Enable support for dev-lang/python and enable the python plugin, to execute own python scripts.
qnaplog	Enable the qnaplog plugin, to read a log from a QNAP device.
raspi	Enable the raspi plugin, to read sensor data from a Raspberry Pi.
sample	Enable the sample plugin.
statfs	Enable the statfs plugin, to get statistics about the file system.
uname	Enable the uname plugin, to get the output of uname.
uptime	Enable the uptime plugin.
w1retap	Enable the w1retap plugin.
wireless	Enable the wireless plugin, to get wireless statistics.

lcdproc

ethlcd	Enable support for ethlcd in the hd44780 driver.
extra-charmaps	Enable extra language specific charmaps.
menu	Enable menu support in the lcdproc client.
nfs	Display NFS filesystem stats in the lcdproc client.
png	Enable support for media-libs/libpng in the glcd driver.
samba	Display SMBFS filesystem stats in the lcdproc client.
test-menu	Enable test menu support for the lcdproc server.
truetype	Enable support for media-libs/freetype in the glcd driver.

libdatovka

openssl	Use openssl backend

lirc

audio	Support using an audio device connected to an IR receiver
devinput	Support the devinput input device
ftdi	Support FTDI devices
gtk	Include GTK support which enables the use of lirc-setup
inputlirc	Add a dependency on app-misc/inputlircd
uinput	Enable support for uinput

mc

edit	Compile and install the mcedit application
sftp	Add support for sftp (uses net-libs/libssh2 for it).
slang	Use sys-libs/slang instead of sys-libs/ncurses.

mime-types

nginx	Enable mime-types support for www-servers/nginx package

mosquitto

bridge	Enable bridge support in the MQTT broker.
persistence	Store messages and subscriptions to a file.
srv	Include SRV lookup support.
websockets	Support the WebSocket protocol.

muttprint

doc	Builds documentation

neofetch

X	Enable support for detecting DEs, WMs, screen resolutions, and showing images from an X terminal

nnn

8contexts	Enable 8 contexts (instead of 4)
colemak	Key bindings for Colemak keyboard layout
colemak-dh	Key bindings for Colemak-DH keyboard layout
emoji	Display icons using emoji
gitstatus	Add git status column to the detail view
icons	Display icons using icons-in-terminal
namefirst	Print filenames first in the detail view
nerdfonts	Display icons using nerdfonts icons
qsort	Use Alexey Tourbin's quick sort implementation
restorepreview	Add pipe to close and restore preview-tui for internal undetached edits

note

general	Add support for ascii flatfile backend
text	Add support for text backend

ola

ftdi	Support FTDI devices
http	Enable built-in Web UI
rdm-tests	Install RDM responder tests

pax-utils

python	Install a more powerful/faster version of lddtree

recoll

camelcase	Enable indexing for camelCase sentences and words
chm	Enable CHM file support via dev-python/pychm
inotify	Use the Linux Kernel notification subsystem for monitoring file alterations in realtime
session	Stop monitoring file alterations when X11 session terminates
webengine	Use dev-qt/qtwebengine for fancy result list display

rlwrap

debug	Enable debug

screen

multiuser	Enable multiuser support (by setting correct permissions)
nethack	Express error messages in nethack style

screenfetch

X	Use the media-gfx/scrot package to take screenshots

skim

tmux	Install sk-tmux script to run skim in a tmux pane
vim	Install vim plugin for skim

sphinx

id64	use 64-bit document and word IDs
mariadb	Add mariadb database support
stemmer	Enable language stemming support

task

sync	Enable "task sync" support

tmux

utempter	Include libutempter support

tracker

miners	Install the app-misc/tracker-miners package for actual data mining support for tracker
stemmer	Add word stemming via dev-libs/snowball-stemmer.

tracker-miners

cue	Enable cue sheet parsing
gsf	Enable gnome-extra/libgsf based data extractor and for ODT.
iptc	Enable extraction of IPTC data from pictures
iso	Enable extraction of metadata from ISO disk images
playlist	Add support for playlists
xps	Add support for XPS file format through app-text/libgxps.

unfoo

minimal	Do not install all support archive binaries

vcontrold

vclient	Build the vclient helper program to talk to vcontrold
vsim	Build the vsim helper program (simulates the heating's answers, for development and debugging)

vifm

developer	Enable features of interest to developers
extended-keys	Support for extended keys (arrows, home etc)
gtk	Use gtk+ to determine mimetypes
vim	Install the vifm vim plugin and vim-compatible documentation

worker

avfs	Enable support for sys-fs/avfs

app-mobilephone

gammu

curl	Enables curl support
irda	Enables infrared support
mysql	Use mysql for data storage
nls	Enable native language support
odbc	Use ODBC as DB connector
postgres	Use PostgreSQL for data storage
usb	Enable USB suport

gnokii

ical	Enable support for dev-libs/libical
irda	Enable infrared support
pcsc-lite	Enable smartcard support with sys-apps/pcsc-lite
sms	Enable SMS support (build smsd)

scrcpy

lto	Build with Link Time Optimization (LTO)

smstools

stats	Enable statistic reporting

app-office

abiword

collab	Enable collaborative editing plugin
goffice	Enable goffice plugin
grammar	Enable grammar checking via dev-libs/link-grammar
map	Enable world map support through media-libs/libchamplain
math	Enable support for x11-libs/gtkmathview
ots	Enable Text Summarizer plugin
plugins	Enable plugins build (see http://www.abisource.com/wiki/PluginMatrix for more information). If your file cannot be opened due lack of support, try enabling this.
redland	Enables support redland and raptor libs.
thesaurus	Enable thesaurus support
wordperfect	Enable wordperfect file support via app-text/libwpd

calcurse

caldav	Support CalDAV

calligra

activities	Enable kactivities support
charts	Build chartshape plugin for creating business charts with dev-libs/kdiagram
gemini	Enable tablet and 2:1 devices support
import-filter	Enable support for various import filter file formats like WordPerfect, Visio and Apple Keynote
lcms	Build colorengine plugins using media-libs/lcms
okular	Enable bindings for kde-apps/okular
phonon	Build stage/eventplugins and videoshape plugin using media-libs/phonon
spacenav	Enable support for the 3Dconnexion spacenav input device via dev-libs/libspnav

calligraplan

activities	Enable kactivities support
holidays	Enable kde-frameworks/kholidays integration
kwallet	Enable access to encrypted OpenDocument files with kde-frameworks/kwallet storage

glabels

barcode	Enable barcode support through external libraries.

gnucash

aqbanking	Connect to some internet banks via AqBanking
quotes	Enable online stock quote retrieval
register2	Use the new register (Experimental)

gnumeric

libgda	Enable database support through gnome-extra/libgda.
perl	Enable perl plugin loader.

grisbi

goffice	enable goffice graphic support

kexi

experimental	Enable features deemed experimental by upstream
marble	Enable displaying of maps using kde-apps/marble
mdb	Enable support for Microsoft Access database

kmymoney

activities	Enable kde-frameworks/kactivities integration
addressbook	Enable kde-apps/akonadi contact integration
hbci	Enable HBCI support using net-libs/aqbanking
holidays	Enable kde-frameworks/kholidays integration

kraft

pim	Enable support for KDE PIM resources integration

libalkimia

webengine	Enable online quotes using dev-qt/qtwebengine

libreoffice

base	Enable full support for LibreOffice Base databases (involves additional bundled libs)
clang	Use Clang compiler instead of GCC
coinmp	Use sci-libs/coinor-mp as alternative solver
googledrive	Enable support for remote files on Google Drive
mariadb	Prefer mariadb connector over mysql connector
odk	Build the Office Development Kit
pdfimport	Enable PDF import via the Poppler library
vulkan	Enable Vulkan usage via the skia library (clang recommended)

libreoffice-l10n

offlinehelp	Install help files locally instead of using the LibreOffice Wiki

lyx

aspell	Add support for aspell spellchecking
dia	Add support for diagrams (app-office/dia)
dot	Add support for DOT import (media-gfx/graphviz)
enchant	Add support for enchant spellchecking wrapper (both aspell and hunspell can be used by LyX).
gnumeric	Add support for importing Gnumeric/OpenOffice/MS Excel spreadsheets into LyX.
html	Add support for HTML import
hunspell	Add support for spellchecking based on hunspell and reuse system-wide OpenOffice dictionaries. This also enable thesaurus dictionaries not accessible via aspell.
monolithic-build	This should speed up compilation significantly when you have enough RAM (> 600 MB)
rcs	Add support for revision control via dev-vcs/rcs
rtf	Add support for RTF import/export packages

magicpoint

contrib	Install additional contributed scripts

mdbtools

glib	Use functions provided by dev-libs/glib, not built-in

planner

libgda	PostgreSQL support via gnome-extra/libgda

sc-im

X	Use x11-misc/xclip for clipboard copy/paste
ods	Add ods import support
plots	Add sci-visualization/gnuplot for plotting support
tmux	Use app-misc/tmux for clipboard copy/paste
wayland	Use gui-apps/wl-clipboard for clipboard copy/paste
xls	Add xls support
xlsx	Add xlsx support

scribus

boost	Enable support for Boost based enhancement
hunspell	Enable support for spell checking with app-text/hunspell
minimal	Don't install headers (only required for e.g. plug-in developers)
osg	3D rendering via dev-games/openscenegraph
scripts	Install the scripts
templates	Document templates
tk	Install tk based scripts e.g. FontSample.py

skrooge

activities	Enable kactivities support

texmacs

netpbm	Add support for media-libs/netpbm

texstudio

video	Use phonon for video embedding

app-pda

gtkpod

clutter	Enable clutter support for displaying coverart

app-portage

conf-update

colordiff	Use colors when displaying diffs (app-misc/colordiff)

eix

debug	Build with upstream's CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS for debugging support; not recommended for normal use.
doc	Create description of the eix cache file additionally in html format
sqlite	Compile in support for portage's sqlite backend; to actually use it you need additional configuration of portage and eix

g-sorcery

bson	Support BSON file format for package DB

gemato

gpg	Install dependencies needed for OpenPGP signature verification support
pretty-log	Pull dev-python/rich to enable pretty logs
tools	Install additional utilities (benchmarks, hash testing tools, fast Manifest generators) to /usr/share/gemato.

grs

server	Install all the tools building systems

kuroneko

scraper	Include the dependencies necessary for Bugzilla scraping.

nattka

depgraph-order	Process packages in depgraph order whenever possible.

pfl

network-cron	Adds a cron job which does a weekly submit of the package database

portage-utils

qmanifest	Build qmanifest applet, this adds additional dependencies for GPG, OpenSSL and BLAKE2B hashing
qtegrity	Build qtegrity applet, this adds additional dependencies for OpenSSL

tatt

templates	Install template scripts to be used with tatt

app-shells

atuin

client	Enable the autin client
server	Enable the autin server
sync	Enable the server-sync feature in the autin client

autojump

ipython	Add support for dev-python/ipython

bash

bashlogger	Log ALL commands typed into bash; should ONLY be used in restricted environments such as honeypots
mem-scramble	Build with custom malloc/free overwriting allocated/freed memory
net	Enable /dev/tcp/host/port redirection
pgo	Optimize the build using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
plugins	Add support for loading builtins at runtime via 'enable'

bash-completion

eselect	Support blacklisting of completions via 'eselect bashcomp'. This enables custom Gentoo patching of upstream completion loader.

mksh

lksh	variant that uses POSIX-compliant arithmetics with the host “long” data type and is automatically in POSIX mode when called as /bin/sh

nushell

dataframe	Dataframe feature for nushell
extra	Enable less stable or less common commands

pdsh

rsh	This allows the use of rsh (remote shell) and rcp (remote copy) for authoring websites. sftp is a much more secure protocol and is preferred.

pwsh-bin

pwsh-symlink	Install a pwsh symlink that points to pwsh-bin.

shish

diet	Use dev-libs/dietlibc

app-text

atril

caja	Enable property page extension in mate-base/caja
dvi	Enable build-in DVI viewer
epub	Enable build-in DVI viewer using net-libs/webkit-gtk
synctex	Enable search highlighting through synctex (virtual/tex-base)
t1lib	Enable the Type-1 fonts for the build-in DVI viewer (media-libs/t1lib)
xps	Enable XPS viewer using app-text/libgxps

blogc

git	Build blogc-git-receiver tool
httpd	Build blogc-runserver tool
make	Build blogc-make tool

coolreader

wxwidgets	Use x11-libs/wxGTK instead of Qt5

crengine-ng

chm	Support chm format
fribidi	Support bidirectional text by dev-libs/fribidi
harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz for kerning and ligatures
libunibreak	Use dev-libs/libunibreak for hyphenation
libutf8proc	Use dev-libs/libutf8proc for manipulating unicode strings
lto	Use link time optimization

crm114

mew	Add support for using the mewdecode mime decoder (app-emacs/mew)
normalizemime	Add support for using the normalizemime (mail-filter/normalizemime)

crqt-ng

chm	Support chm format
fribidi	Support bidirectional text by dev-libs/fribidi
harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz for kerning and ligatures
libunibreak	Use dev-libs/libunibreak for hyphenation
libutf8proc	Use dev-libs/libutf8proc for manipulating unicode strings

crwx-ng

chm	Support chm format
fribidi	Support bidirectional text by dev-libs/fribidi
harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz for kerning and ligatures
libunibreak	Use dev-libs/libunibreak for hyphenation
libutf8proc	Use dev-libs/libutf8proc for manipulating unicode strings

dblatex

inkscape	Use inkscape to convert SVG. Disable to use gnome-base/librsvg instead.

dictd

judy	Build Judy-based (dev-libs/judy) plugin implementing fast "exact" and especially "lev" strategies
minimal	Don't build server but dict client, dictzip and dictfmt only.

docbook-sgml-utils

jadetex	Add support for processing tex files produced by the TeX backend of Jade

docbook-xsl-ns-stylesheets

ruby	Install the Ruby-based dbtoepub script; requires an interpreter compatible with app-eselect/eselect-ruby.

docbook-xsl-stylesheets

ruby	Install the Ruby-based dbtoepub script; requires an interpreter compatible with app-eselect/eselect-ruby.

ebook-tools

lit2epub	Install lit2epub script

editorconfig-core-c

cli	Install command line interface.

enchant

aspell	Adds support for app-text/aspell spell checker
hunspell	Adds support for app-text/hunspell spell checker
nuspell	Adds support for app-text/nuspell spell checker
voikko	Adds support for dev-libs/libvoikko spell checker

evince

dvi	Enable the built-in DVI viewer
nautilus	Enable property page extension in gnome-base/nautilus
postscript	Enable support for PostScript and Adobe Illustrator documents with app-text/libspectre
spell	Enable inline spell check for annotations via app-text/gspell
xps	Enable XPS viewer using app-text/libgxps

foliate

handy	Use gui-libs/libhandy

ghostscript-gpl

unicode	Add support for unicode passwords via net-dns/libidn

groonga

abort	Enable query abortion
benchmark	Build benchmark programs
dynamic-malloc-change	Allow dynamic memory allocation change for testing
exact-alloc-count	Atomic counting for memory alloc count
fmalloc	Make memory allocation failed in specified condition for debug
futex	Use futex
libevent	Enable dev-libs/libevent used for suggestion
mecab	Use app-text/mecab for morphological analysis
msgpack	Enable dev-libs/msgpack used for suggestion
nfkc	Use nfkc based utf8 normalization
sphinx	Enable document generation by app-misc/sphinx
uyield	Build for detecting race conditions
zeromq	Enable net-libs/zeromq used for suggestion

htmltidy

deprecated	Install tools and header files which are now considered deprecated

hyperestraier

mecab	Enable app-text/mecab support for Estraier

kbibtex

webengine	Use dev-qt/qtwebengine for HTML previews

kjots

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

lcdf-typetools

kpathsea	Enable integration with kpathsea search library (TeX related)

libebook

tools	Build file conversion tools

libgepub

webkit	Build with GepubWidget based on Webkit

libmwaw

tools	Build file conversion tools

libqxp

tools	Build file conversion tools

libstaroffice

tools	Build conversion tools
zlib	Enable support for compressed data

libwpd

tools	Build file conversion tools

libwps

tools	Build file conversion tools

mandoc

cgi	build man.cgi web plugin for viewing man pages
system-man	set as the default man provider

mathtex

png	Generate png images by default instead of gif

msort

heap	Use heap instead of alloca()
icu	Use dev-libs/icu instead of dev-libs/libutf8proc.
libuninum	Use dev-libs/libuninum for conversion.

mupdf

drm	Enable support for Digital rights management (DRM)

pandoc

embed-data-files	Embed data files in binary for relocatable executable.
trypandoc	Build trypandoc cgi executable.

pandoc-bin

pandoc-symlink	Install pandoc symlink that points to pandoc-bin

pdfgrep

unac	Removing accents and ligatures before search

pdfpc

gstreamer	Compile support for movie playback (media-libs/gstreamer)
soup	Compile support for REST server (net-libs/libsoup)
webkit	Enable viewing Markdown notes (net-libs/webkit-gtk)

pelican

markdown	Markdown support

podofo

boost	Add support for boost
tools	Build and install commandline tools.

poppler

boost	Use boost::small_vector for a serious performance gain
gpgme	Enable signatures handling with app-crypt/gpgme
nss	Enable signatures handling with dev-libs/nss
utils	Install command-line PDF converters and various utilities.

qpdfview

fitz	Use experimental fitz rendering, provided by app-text/mupdf, instead of poppler
synctex	Add support for searching TeX sources

robodoc

examples	Installs usage examples in /usr/share for Perl

sdcv

darkterm	Improve readability of color output on terminals with dark background.

sigil

plugins	Installed needed Python packages for using Sigil plugins

sword

clucene	Use dev-cpp/clucene for lucene search support

tessdata_best

osd	Enable support orientation and script detection.

tessdata_fast

osd	Enable support orientation and script detection.

tessdata_legacy

math	Enable support for recognition of equations.
osd	Enable support orientation and script detection.

tesseract

float32	Support float for model training and text recognition (faster, requires less RAM)
opencl	Enable opencl support for speedup using GPU computation.
training	Install training applications to add support for new languages.

texlive

context	Add support for the ConTeXt format (dev-texlive/texlive-context)
extra	Add support for extra TeXLive packages
games	Add typesetting support for games (chess, etc.) (dev-texlive/texlive-games)
graphics	Add support for several graphics packages (pgf, tikz,...)
humanities	Add LaTeX support for the humanities (dev-texlive/texlive-humanities)
luatex	Add extra support for luatex
metapost	Add support for metapost: A tool for creating graphics in scalable PostScript
music	Add support for music typesetting (dev-texlive/texlive-music)
pdfannotextractor	Add dev-tex/pdfannotextractor support, for extracting annotations from PDF files
pstricks	Add pstricks packages (dev-texlive/texlive-pstricks)
publishers	Add support for publishers (dev-texlive/texlive-publishers)
science	Add typesetting support for natural and computer sciences (dev-texlive/texlive-mathscience)
tex4ht	Add support for dev-tex/tex4ht (for converting (La)TeX to (X)HTML, XML and OO.org)
texi2html	Add support for app-text/texi2html which converts texi files to HTML
xetex	Add support for XeTeX macros (dev-texlive/texlive-xetex)

texlive-core

luajittex	Add support for LuaJitTeX: LuaTeX based on LuaJIT which is usually faster.
xetex	Add support for XeTeX: a TeX system with Unicode and modern font technologies.
xindy	Add support for Xindy: A general-purpose index processor.

wdiff

experimental	Build experimental utilities (mdiff, unify, wdiff2)

webgen

builder	Enable programmatic HTML/XML generation
highlight	Enable syntax highlighting for certain plugins
markdown	Markdown support

writerperfect

abiword	Add support for abiword format using app-text/libabw
ebook	Add support for various ebook formats using app-text/libebook
epub	Add support for conversion to ePub format using app-text/libepubgen
freehand	Add support for freehand format using media-libs/libfreehand
gsf	Add support for structured files using gnome-extra/libgsf
keynote	Add support for keynote format using app-text/libetonyek
mspub	Add support to mspub format using app-text/libmspub
mwaw	Add support to mwaw formats using app-text/libmwaw
pagemaker	Add support to pagemaker formats using media-libs/libpagemaker
qxp	Add support for QuarkXpress documents using app-text/libqxp
visio	Add support for visio format using media-libs/libvisio
wpd	Add support for wpd format using app-text/libwpd
wpg	Add support for wpg format using app-text/libwpg
wps	Add support for wps format using app-text/libwps
zmf	Add support for Zoner Callisto/Draw documents format using media-libs/libzmf

wv

tools	Install optional utilities considered deprecated in favor of using AbiWord.

xmlto

text	Support conversion from XML to plain text

xpdf

cmyk	Include support for CMYK rasterization
i18n	Enable support non-UTF8 national charsets
icons	Generate desktop PNG icons using media-gfx/inkscape
libpaper	Use app-text/libpaper to get paper preferences
metric	Use A4 instead of US Letter paper size by default for PostScript output. This option has effect only if libpaper USE flag is disabled
opi	Include support for OPI (Open Prepress Interface) comments
textselect	Allow text selection
utils	Install command-line PDF converters and various utilities

zathura

synctex	Use libsynctex to get latex codeline from pdf

zathura-meta

cb	Install plug-in for ComicBook support

app-vim

gentoo-syntax

ignore-glep31	Remove GLEP 31 (UTF-8 file encodings) settings

app-xemacs

xemacs-packages-all

mule	Add multi-language support to XEmacs

dev-ada

aws

shared	Build shared library
wsdl	Used to convert ada to wsdl

gnatcoll-bindings

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build shared library

gnatcoll-core

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

gnatcoll-db

db2ada	Build gnatcoll_db2ada
gnatinspect	Build gnatinspect
shared	Build shared library
sql	Build sql library
static-pic	Build shared library
xref	Build xref library

gpr

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

gpr-unit-provider

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

gtkada

shared	Build gtkada as shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

langkit

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

libadalang

static-pic	Build static library with pic code

libadalang-tools

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

libgpr

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

spawn

glib	Add support to dev-libs/glib-based mainloop.
shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

templates-parser

shared	Build shared library

xmlada

shared	Build shared library
static-pic	Build static library with pic code

dev-cpp

abseil-cpp

cxx17	Build with -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 (required by some revdeps)

benchmark

lto	Optimize the build using Link Time Optimization (LTO)

cpp-httplib

brotli	Enable app-arch/brotli support

eigen

cuda	Build with cuda support

glog

gflags	Use dev-cpp/gflags for flag parsing
libunwind	Use libunwind library (sys-libs/libunwind or sys-libs/llvm-libunwind) instead of built-in fallback implementation for stack unwinding

jwt-cpp

picojson	Enable use of dev-cpp/picojson

libcmis

tools	Build client tool for testing and viewing features

libjson-rpc-cpp

http-client	Build support for HTTP client using net-misc/curl
http-server	Build support for HTTP server using net-libs/libmicrohttpd
redis-client	Build support for Redis client using dev-libs/hiredis
redis-server	Build support for Redis server using dev-libs/hiredis
stubgen	Build header stub code generator (needed for development and when pregenerated headers are not bundled)

msgpack-cxx

boost	Enable boost support

opentelemetry-cpp

jaeger	Include the jaeger exporter
prometheus	include the Prometheus Client in the SDK

sdbus-c++

systemd	Use external libsystemd instead of statically-linked build
tools	Install interface stub code generator

dev-db

etcd

server	Installs etcd daemon

firebird

server	Install the server components of Firebird, not just the client
xinetd	Install ClassicServer

mariadb

backup	Build mariadb-backup which supports SST and hot backup of InnoDB, Aria and MyISAM including compression and encryption
columnstore	Build the ColumnStore storage engine
extraengine	Add support for alternative storage engines (Archive, CSV, Blackhole, Federated(X), Partition)
galera	Enables galera replication
innodb-lz4	Enables lz4 compression methods for InnoDB/XtraDB
innodb-lzo	Enables lzo compression methods for InnoDB/XtraDB
innodb-snappy	Enables snappy compression methods for InnoDB/XtraDB using app-arch/snappy
jdbc	Enable the CONNECT engine to access foreign databases via JDBC
latin1	Use LATIN1 encoding instead of UTF8
mroonga	Add support for the Mroonga engine for interfacing with the Groonga text search
numa	Enable NUMA support using sys-process/numactl (NUMA kernel support is also required)
oqgraph	Add support for the Open Query GRAPH engine
pam	Enable the optional PAM authentication plugin for the server
profiling	Add support for statement profiling (requires USE=community).
rocksdb	Add support for RocksDB; a key/value, LSM database optimized for flash storage
s3	Build the S3 storage engine
server	Build the server program
sphinx	Add suport for the sphinx full-text search engine
sst-mariabackup	Add tools needed to support the mariabackup SST method
sst-rsync	Add tools needed to support the rsync SST method
systemtap	Build support for profiling and tracing using dev-util/systemtap
test	Install upstream testsuites for end use.
yassl	Enable SSL connections and crypto functions using the bundled yaSSL

mongodb

lto	Adds support for link time optimization
mongosh	Install the MongoDB shell from app-admin/mongosh-bin
tools	Install the MongoDB tools (mongoimport, mongodump...) from app-admin/mongo-tools

mycli

ssh	Add support for connection over SSH tunnel

mysql

cjk	Add CJK support for InnoDB fulltext search using app-text/mecab
client-libs	Build the client libraries from the server package instead of the C Connector packages (not recommended)
experimental	Build experimental features aka "rapid" plugins
latin1	Use LATIN1 encoding instead of UTF8
numa	Enable NUMA support using sys-process/numactl (NUMA kernel support is also required)
profiling	Add support for statement profiling (requires USE=community).
router	Build the MySQL router program
server	Build the server program
systemtap	Build support for profiling and tracing using dev-util/systemtap
test	Install upstream testsuites for end use.

mysql-connector-c++

legacy	Build the legacy 1.x API as well as the DevX API

oracle-instantclient

jdbc	Support for XA, Internationalization, and RowSet operations under JDBC
odbc	Libraries for enabling ODBC applications
precomp	"proc" binary and related files to precompile a Pro*C application
sdk	Header files and an example makefile for developing Oracle applications
sqlplus	The SQL*Plus command line tool for SQL and PL/SQL queries
tools	Data Pump, SQL*Loader and Workload Replay Client

percona-server

cjk	Add CJK support for InnoDB fulltext search using app-text/mecab
latin1	Use LATIN1 encoding instead of UTF8
numa	Enable NUMA support using sys-process/numactl (NUMA kernel support is also required)
profiling	Add support for statement profiling (requires USE=community).
rocksdb	Add support for RocksDB; a key/value, LSM database optimized for flash storage
router	Build the MySQL router program
server	Build the server program
tokudb	Add support for TokuDB storage engine
tokudb-backup-plugin	Builds the TokuDB backup plugin

pgbouncer

c-ares	Use c-ares as the DNS backend instead of evdns (libevent).
udns	Use udns as the DNS backend instead of evdns (libevent). Supports IPv4 only.

pgpool2

memcached	Use memcached for query caching.

phpmyadmin

setup	Installs the phpMyAdmin setup utility. Users who don't use the utility should disable this USE flag for security reasons as the setup tool was the target of various exploits in the past.

postgis

address-standardizer	Normalize US and CA postal addresses
gtk	Build graphical interface for shp2pgsql (shp2pgsql-gui)
topology	Build topology spatial types and functions

postgresql

llvm	Add support for llvm JIT engine
server	Disable to build and install the clients and libraries only.
uuid	Enable server side UUID generation (via dev-libs/ossp-uuid).

psqlodbc

iodbc	Use dev-db/libiodbc. Disable to use dev-db/unixODBC.

redis

tcmalloc	Use tcmalloc from dev-util/google-perftools for allocations.

spatialite

geos	Add the sci-libs/geos library for exact topological tests
proj	Add the sci-libs/proj library for reprojection features
rttopo	Add the sci-geosciences/librttopo library for topology support
xls	Add the dev-libs/freexl library for xls import support

sqldeveloper

sybase	Add support for the Sybase SQL Database Server

sqlite

secure-delete	Enable overwriting of deleted content with zeros by default (http://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete), causing some performance penalty
tools	Install additional tools, among which are included: sqlite3-analyzer, sqlite3-changeset, sqlite3-db-dump, sqlite3-diff, sqlite3-rbu, sqlite3-expert and others.

sqlitestudio

cli	Build CLI interface

timescaledb

proprietary-extensions	Enable proprietary features/extensions licensed under the TimeScale License

unixODBC

minimal	Disable bundled drivers and extra libraries (most users don't need these)
odbcmanual	Administrator, Internal Structure, Programmer and User documentation

dev-embedded

avrdude

ftdi	Enable support for USB FTDI chips via dev-embedded/libftdi

libftdi

tools	build ftdi_eeprom helper tool

openocd

capstone	Use dev-libs/capstone for disassembly support
cmsis-dap	Support for CMSIS-DAP compliant adapters
dummy	Build the dummy port driver
ftdi	Enable support for USB FTDI chips via dev-embedded/libftdi
jlink	Build the SEGGER J-Link driver
parport	Enable support for parport JTAG devices
verbose-io	Verbose IO and comm JTAG and USB messages

sdcc

avr	Add support for AVR -- not supported upstream
boehm-gc	Enable Hans Boehm's garbage collector dev-libs/boehm-gc
device-lib	Enable built of devices libraries
ds390	Add support for Dallas DS390
ds400	Add support for Dallas DS400
ez80-z80	Add support for EZ80-Z80
gbz80	Add support for Gameboy gbz80
hc08	Add support for Freescale/Motorola HC08 based
mcs51	Add support for Intel mcs51
mos6502	Add support for MOS 6502
mos65c02	Add support for MOS 65C02
non-free	Enable non-free runtime library parts
packihx	Enable Intel HEX files pack utility
pdk13	Add support for PDK13
pdk14	Add support for PDK14
pdk15	Add support for PDK15
pdk16	Add support for PDK16
pic14	Add support for Microchip 14 bits PICs
pic16	Add support for Microchip 16 bits PICs
r2k	Add support for Rabbit 2000
r2ka	Add support for Rabbit 2000A
r3ka	Add support for Rabbit 3000A
s08	Add support for Freescale/Motorola S08
sdbinutils	Enable SDCC library archive utilities sdar, sdranlib, sdnm
sdcdb	Enable SDCC source level debugger
sdcpp	Enable SDCC preprocessor based on GCC cpp
sm83	Add support for Gameboy SM83
stm8	Add support for STMicroelectronics STM8
tlcs90	Add support for TLCS-90
ucsim	Enable software simulator for microcontrollers
z180	Add support for Zilog Z180
z80	Add support for Zilog Z80
z80n	Add support for Zilog Z80N

u-boot-tools

envtools	Build only the target-side environment tools

urjtag

ftd2xx	Enable support for USB FTDI chips via dev-embedded/libftd2xx
ftdi	Enable support for USB FTDI chips via dev-embedded/libftdi

dev-games

cegui

devil	Build the DevIL based ImageCodec module
freeimage	Build the FreeImage based ImageCodec module
irrlicht	Enable the Irrlicht renderer
ogre	Enable the OGRE renderer
tinyxml	Enable the Tiny XML parser module
xerces-c	Enable the Xerces-C++ XML parser module
zip	Enable the Minizip resource provider

godot

bullet	Enable the sci-physics/bullet module
deprecated	Enable support for deprecated features
raycast	Enable the raycast Editor module using media-libs/embree
runner	Build an additional binary optimized for running games (only relevant with USE=tools)
speech	Enable text-to-speech support
tools	Enable the Godot Editor for game development
webm	Enable the WebM module

guichan

allegro	Build the Allegro frontend

mygui

l10n_ru	Install some additional russian docs if 'doc' useflag enabled
ogre	Use the ogre render subsystem. (cannot combine with opengl)
opengl	Use the opengl render subsystem. (cannot combine with ogre)
plugins	Build MyGUI plugins
samples	Install MyGUI demos (needs ogre USE flag)
tools	Build the tools for development

ode

double-precision	more precise calculations at the expense of speed
gyroscopic	enable gyroscopic term (may cause instability)

ogre

assimp	Use media-libs/assimp to import assets from 3D files
boost	Enable boost support
bullet	Use sci-physics/bullet for physics plugin
cache	Enable GL state cache support
cg	NVIDIA toolkit plugin
deprecated	Build deprecated nodeless positioning of Lights and Cameras.
double-precision	More precise calculations at the expense of speed
egl	Use egl instead of glx
fine-granularity	Enable fine light mask granularity. This impacts on performance and should not be enabled unless an application really needs it.
freeimage	Support images via media-libs/freeimage
gl3plus	Build OpenGL 3+ RenderSystem
gles2	Build OpenGL ES 2.x RenderSystem
gles3	Enable OpenGL ES 3.x Features
json	Use dev-libs/rapidjson (needed by Hlms JSON materials)
legacy-animations	Use the skeletal animation from 1.x. It's much slower, but the new system is still experimental.
ois	Pull in Object-oriented Input System library dev-games/ois for samples
poco	When USE=threads, use poco for threading
resman-pedantic	Resource Manager PEDANTIC : require an explicit resource group. Case sensitive lookup. Some demos might not work with this setting. (default: case-insensitive + sensitive lookup in all groups)
tbb	When USE=threads, use tbb for threading
tools	Build and install AssimpConverter (assimp USE flag is enabled), MeshUpgrader, VRMLConverter and XMLConverter

openscenegraph

collada	Enable DAE file support via dev-libs/collada-dom
dicom	Enable DICOM medical image file support via sci-libs/dcmtk
egl	Enable EGL support
fox	Build examples using x11-libs/fox library
gdal	Enable support for sci-libs/gdal library
las	Enable support for geospatial data LAS LiDAR format using sci-geosciences/liblas
openinventor	Build OpenInventor plugin
osgapps	Build osg applications
sdl2	Use media-libs/libsdl2 additionally to media-libs/libsdl
xrandr	Enable support for the X xrandr extension

openscenegraph-openmw

collada	Enable DAE file support via dev-libs/collada-dom
dicom	Enable DICOM medical image file support via sci-libs/dcmtk
egl	Enable EGL support
fox	Build examples using x11-libs/fox library
gdal	Enable support for sci-libs/gdal library
las	Enable support for geospatial data LAS LiDAR format using sci-geosciences/liblas
openinventor	Build OpenInventor plugin
osgapps	Build osg applications
sdl2	Use media-libs/libsdl2 additionally to media-libs/libsdl
xrandr	Enable support for the X xrandr extension

physfs

7zip	Enable 7zip/lzma archive support
grp	Enable Build Engine GRP archive support
hog	Enable Descent I/II HOG archive support
iso	Enable ISO9660 file support
mvl	Enable Descent I/II MVL archive support
qpak	Enable Quake I/II QPAK archive support
slb	Enable Independence War SLB archive support
vdf	Enable Gothic/Gothic II VDF archive support
wad	Enable Doom WAD archive support

simgear

dns	Enable DNS resolver via net-libs/udns
gdal	Enable alternative terrain engine based on pagedLOD via sci-libs/gdal
subversion	Enable terrasync scenery downloader

dev-haskell

abstract-deque

usecas	Enable the reference implementation to use hardware compare-and-swap.

aeson

cffi	Controls whether to include c-ffi bits or pure haskell. Default to False for security.
ordered-keymap	Use ordered @Data.Map.Strict@ for KeyMap implementation.

aeson-pretty

lib-only	don't build 'aeson-pretty' executable.

ansi-terminal

example	Build the example application.

atomic-primops

debug	Enable extra internal checks.

bifunctors

semigroups	You can disable the use of the `semigroups` package using `-f-semigroups`. Disabing this is an unsupported configuration, but it may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.
tagged	You can disable the use of the `tagged` package using `-f-tagged`. Disabing this is an unsupported configuration, but it may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.

c2hs

regression	run regression tests

cabal-install

lukko	Use @lukko@ for file-locking
native-dns	Enable use of the [resolv](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/resolv) & [windns](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/windns) packages for performing DNS lookups

chell

color-output	use colors in program output

citeproc

executable	Build citeproc executable
icu	Use Haskell bindings to the ICU library

cmdargs

quotation	Build quote module
testprog	Build the test program

comonad

indexed-traversable	You can disable the use of the `indexed-traversable` package using `-f-indexed-traversable`. Disabling this is an unsupported configuration, but it may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users. If disabled we will not supply instances of `FunctorWithIndex`

contravariant

semigroups	You can disable the use of the `semigroups` package using `-f-semigroups`. Disabling this is an unsupported configuration, but it may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.
statevar	You can disable the use of the `StateVar` package using `-f-StateVar`. Disabling this is an unsupported configuration, but it may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.
tagged	You can disable the use of the `tagged` package on older versons of GHC using `-f-tagged`. Disabling this is an unsupported configuration, but it may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.

criterion

embed-data-files	Embed the data files in the binary for a relocatable executable

crypto-api

all-cpolys	Build all the CMAC polynomes up to 10000 bits instead of just the usual ones

cryptonite

integer-gmp	Whether or not to use GMP for some functions
target-attributes	use GCC / clang function attributes instead of global target options.

dlist

werror	Enable -Werror

entropy

halvm	Build for the HaLVM.

foundation

experimental	enable building experimental features, known as highly unstable or without good support cross-platform

hackage-security

lukko	Use @lukko@ for file-locking, otherwise use @GHC.IO.Handle.Lock@

hashable

random-initial-seed	Randomly initialize the seed on every executable invocation. This is not a security feature and is intended only for testing (it can affect legitimate use cases).

haskeline

terminfo	Use the terminfo package for POSIX consoles.

hdbc-sqlite3

splitbase	Choose the new smaller, split-up package.

http-api-data

text-show	Use text-show library for efficient ToHttpApiData implementation.

httpd-shed

buildexamples	Build example executables.

libyaml

no-unicode	Don't enable unicode output. Instead, unicode characters will be escaped.
system-libyaml	Use the system-wide libyaml instead of the bundled copy

lpeg

rely-on-shared-lpeg-library	Do not build lpeg from source, but trust that lpeg is made available in other ways, e.g., through a system-wide installation. The loader will be replaced with a placeholder function that only emits a message.

lua

system-lua	Use @pkg-config@ to discover library and include paths. Setting this flag implies `pkg-config`.

monad-logger

template-haskell	Enable Template Haskell support.

monad-par

chaselev	Use Chase-Lev Deques for higher-perf work-stealing.

nats

binary	enable binary instances
hashable	enable hashable instances
template-haskell	enable template_haskell

network

devel	using tests for developers

parsec-numbers

parsec1	use dev-haskell/parsec1 instead of dev-haskell/parsec

parsers

attoparsec	Enable the use of the `attoparsec` package
binary	You can disable the use of the `binary` package using `-f-binary`.
parsec	Enable the use of the `parsec` package

persistent-sqlite

build-sanity-exe	Build a sanity check test executable.

quickcheck

template-haskell	Enable additional test modules requiring Template Haskell support.

quickcheck-classes

aeson	Enable the use of the `aeson` package. This may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.
binary-laws	Include infrastructure for testing class laws of binary type constructors. Disabling `unary-laws` while keeping `binary-laws` enabled is an unsupported configuration.
semigroupoids	Enable the use of the `semigroupoids` package. This may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.
semirings	Enable the use of the `semirings` package. This may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.
unary-laws	Include infrastructure for testing class laws of unary type constructors.
vector	Enable the use of the `vector` package. This may be useful for accelerating builds in sandboxes for expert users.

quickcheck-classes-base

binary-laws	Include infrastructure for testing class laws of binary type constructors. Disabling `unary-laws` while keeping `binary-laws` enabled is an unsupported configuration.
unary-laws	Include infrastructure for testing class laws of unary type constructors.

sandi

conduit	Build with conduit

sha

exe	Build a sha1 and a sha384 executable similar to 'md5sum'.

shelly

lifted	run the tests against Shelly.Lifted

simple-sendfile

allow-bsd	Allow use of BSD sendfile (disable on GNU/kFreeBSD)

skein

big-endian	When manually selecting the endianness, use big-endian (default is little-endian).
force-endianness	Use a manually selected endian when compiling (see flag 'big-endian').
reference	Use the reference implementation instead of the optimized one.

skylighting

executable	Build the skylighting executable.

skylighting-core

executable	Build the skylighting executable.

splitmix

optimised-mixer	Use JavaScript for mix32

texmath

executable	Compile test executable.
server	Compile webserver.

text-short

asserts	Enable runtime-checks via 'assert'

tls

compat	Accept SSLv2 compatible handshake.
network	Use the base network library.

transformers-base

orphaninstances	Build instances for orphan datatypes.

unicode-collation

doctests	Run doctests as part of test suite. Use with: @--write-ghc-environment-files=always@.
executable	Build the unicode-collate executable.

unix-compat

old-time	build against old-time package

vector

boundschecks	Enable bounds checking
internalchecks	Enable internal consistency checks at the cost of a significant performance penalty
unsafechecks	Enable bounds checking in unsafe operations at the cost of a significant performance penalty

vector-algorithms

bench	Build a benchmarking program.
boundschecks	Enable bounds checking.
internalchecks	Enable internal consistency checks at the cost of a significant performance penalty.
properties	Enable quickcheck tests.
unsafechecks	Enable bounds checking in unsafe operations at the cost of a significant performance penalty.

void

safe	dissable effective but unsafe coersions

wai-app-static

print	print debug info.

warp

allow-sendfilefd	Allow use of sendfileFd (not available on GNU/kFreeBSD)
x509	Adds a dependency on the x509 library to enable getting TLS client certificates.

wcwidth

cli	Enable command line tool

yaml

examples	Install the haskell-yaml-examples executable
executable	Install the yaml2json and json2yaml executables

yesod-form

network-uri	Get Network.URI from the network-uri package

zip-archive

executable	Build the Zip executable.

zlib

bundled-c-zlib	Use the bundled zlib C sources. Requires pkg-config to be False. For windows, this is the default.
non-blocking-ffi	The (de)compression calls can sometimes take a long time, which prevents other Haskell threads running. Enabling this flag avoids this unfairness, but with greater overall cost.

dev-java

ant

antlr	Enable ANTLR Ant tasks
bcel	Enable bcel (bytecode manipulation) Ant tasks
bsf	Enable support for Apache Bean Scripting Framework (dev-java/bsf)
commonslogging	Enable commons-logging Ant tasks
commonsnet	Enable commons-net Ant tasks
jai	Enable JAI (Java Imaging) Ant task
javamail	Enable JavaMail Ant task
jdepend	Enable Jdepend Ant tasks
jmf	Enable JMF (Java Media Framework) Ant tasks
jsch	Disable Jsch (ssh, scp and related) Ant tasks
junit	Enable JUnit Ant tasks
junit4	Enable JUnit4 Ant tasks
junitlauncher	Enable JUnit5 Ant tasks
log4j	Enable Apache log4j Ant tasks
oro	Enable Apache Oro Ant tasks
regexp	Enable Apache Regexp Ant tasks
resolver	Enable Apache Resolver Ant tasks
swing	Enable Swing Ant tasks
testutil	Enable optional test util classes
xz	Enable XZ Ant tasks

commons-logging

log4j	Add optional support for log4j

dom4j

jaxen	Includes org.jaxen.dom4j package

eclipse-ecj

ant	Support using ecj in Ant builds via dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj

emma

launcher	Install /usr/bin/emma. Collides with sci-biology/emboss.

icedtea

cacao	Use the CACAO virtual machine rather than HotSpot.
cups	Link against the CUPS library at compile time, rather than using it dynamically at runtime.
headless-awt	Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs (used to be X flag)
jamvm	Use the JamVM virtual machine rather than HotSpot.
jbootstrap	If possible, recompile the final IcedTea executables with itself.
kerberos	Link against Kerberos in order to obtain the cache location.
pax-kernel	Apply patch needed for pax enabled kernels.
pch	Build using pre-compiled headers.
sctp	Build the SCTP NIO channel implementation against lksctp
shenandoah	Include the Shenandoah ultra-low pause time garbage collector (-XX:+UseShenandoahGC) (arm64 and x86_64 only)
smartcard	Build the PCSC driver against pcsc-lite
system-lcms	Build against the system LCMS installation rather than the in-tree copy.
zero	Enable Zero assembler port (usually for non-HotSpot architectures)

icedtea-bin

headless-awt	Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs (used to be X flag)

jaxen

dom4j	Includes org.jaxen.dom4j package
jdom	Includes org.jaxen.jdom package
xom	Includes org.jaxen.xom package

junit

migration-support	Include the junit-jupiter-migrationsupport module, which helps with migration from JUnit 4 to JUnit Jupiter
suite	Include the JUnit Platform Suite Engine, which adds test suite support
vintage	Include JUnit Vintage, which allows JUnit 5 to run JUnit 3 and JUnit 4 tests

openjdk

headless-awt	Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs
javafx	Import OpenJFX modules at build time, via dev-java/openjfx
jbootstrap	Build OpenJDK twice, the second time using the result of the first
lto	Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)
source	Install JVM sources
system-bootstrap	Bootstrap using installed openjdk
systemtap	Enable SystemTAP/DTrace tracing

openjdk-bin

headless-awt	Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs (used to be X flag)
source	Install JVM sources

openjdk-jre-bin

headless-awt	Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs (used to be X flag)

openjfx

media	Compile media module, based on gstreamer-minimal (does not pull gstreamer)
source	Install JavaFX sources

pdfbox

tools	Build and install pdfbox-tools

protobuf-java

system-protoc	Use protoc provided by dev-libs/protobuf

rxtx

lfd	Installs and uses LockFileServer daemon (lfd)

sbt

binary	Install from (Gentoo-compiled) binary instead of building from sources. Set this when you run out of memory during build.

dev-lang

R

lto	Use link-time optimization for R and its recommended packages.

algol68g

mpfr	Add support for multiprecision floating point rouding

ammonite-repl-bin

scala2-13	Install Ammonite for Scala 2.13
scala3-0	Install Ammonite for Scala 3.0
scala3-1	Install Ammonite for Scala 3.1
scala3-2	Install Ammonite for Scala 3.2

bas

lr0	Use the LR0 parser instead of the recursive descending parser

crystal

debug	Build each module as a separate object file. Speeds build up.

erlang

kpoll	Enable kernel polling support

gdl

eigen	Build matrix manipulation with dev-cpp/eigen
glpk	Use GNU Linear Programming Kit sci-mathematics/glpk
gshhs	Add support for projection adn continent maps with sci-geosciences/gshhs-data
hdf	Add support for the Hierarchical Data Format v.4
proj	Add support for sci-libs/proj (geographic projections)
shapelib	Add support for manipulating ESRI Shapefiles with sci-libs/shapelib
udunits	Add support for manipulating units of physical quantities

gforth

check	Enable build-time sanity check.

ghc

binary	Install the binary version directly, rather than using it to build the source version.
elfutils	Enable DWARF-based backtraces using dev-libs/elfutils.
ghcbootstrap	Internal: Bootstrap GHC from an existing GHC installation.
ghcmakebinary	Internal: Build binary friendly for redistribution.
gmp	Use dev-libs/gmp for integer operations (works faster, but an external depend).
llvm	Pull in dependencies for the sys-devel/llvm codegen backend.
numa	Enable NUMA thread balancing policy using sys-process/numactl.
unregisterised	Create an unregisterised build in which only the C codegen backend will be available.

gnat-gpl

ada	Build the ADA language (GNAT) frontend
bootstrap	Used to bootstrap gnat-gpl
cet	Enable support for Intel Control Flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
d	Enable support for the D programming language
default-stack-clash-protection	Build packages with stack clash protection on by default
default-znow	Request full relocation on start from ld.so by default
fixed-point	Enable fixed-point arithmetic support for MIPS targets in gcc (Warning: significantly increases compile time!)
go	Build the GCC Go language frontend.
graphite	Add support for the framework for loop optimizations based on a polyhedral intermediate representation
libssp	Build SSP support into a dedicated library rather than use the code in the C library (DO NOT ENABLE THIS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT DOES)
lto	Build using Link Time Optimizations (LTO)
nptl	Enable support for Native POSIX Threads Library, the new threading module (requires linux-2.6 or better usually)
objc	Build support for the Objective C code language
objc++	Build support for the Objective C++ language
objc-gc	Build support for the Objective C code language Garbage Collector
pgo	Build GCC using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
rust	Build support for the Rust language, installs gccrs.
sanitize	Build support for various sanitizer functions (ASAN/TSAN/etc...)
ssp	Build packages with stack smashing protector on by default
systemtap	enable systemtap static probe points
vtv	Build support for virtual table verification (a C++ hardening feature)

gnucobol

json	Enable support for JSON template formatting via dev-libs/json-c

idris2

chez	build using dev-scheme/chez
racket	build using dev-scheme/racket
test-full	pull in depedndencies to run all tests

inform

tools	Install blorbtools for manipulating Blorb files

janet

static-libs	install janet static library archive, you must enable this flag for using `jpm build`

jerryscript

debugger	Install jerry-debugger

jsonnet

custom-optimization	Build with user-specified compiler optimizations (-Os, -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3) from CFLAGS (unsupported)

lazarus

extras	Build a lot of extra packages, including lhelp chm viewer program.
gtk2	Use gtk:2 for widgets.
gui	Build GUI IDE.
minimal	Don't build extra packages from the bigide component

logtalk

fop	Support for generating pdf documentation using fop
xslt	Support for generating html documentation using xslt

lua

deprecated	make deprecated data structures/routines available

luajit

lua52compat	Enable some upwards-compatible features from Lua 5.2 that are unlikely to break existing code.

mercury

erlang	Support Mercury Erlang grade
trail	Support Mercury trail grades

mercury-extras

tommath	Enable support for tommath library

mlton

binary	install a binary version
bootstrap-smlnj	Boostrap mlton with dev-lang/smlnj (takes a long time)
pax-kernel	Enable if the user plans to run the package under a pax enabled hardened kernel
stage3	After bootstrap building mlton with dev-lang/smlnj, rebuild mlton with the second stage build of mlton (recommended).

moarvm

asan	Enable clang's Address Sanitizer functionality. Expect longer compile time.
clang	Use clang compiler instead of GCC
jit	Enable Just-In-Time-Compiler. Has no effect except on AMD64 and Darwin.
optimize	Enable optimization via CFLAGS
ubsan	Enable clang's Undefined Behavior Sanitizer functionality. Expect longer compile time.

mono

pax-kernel	Enable if the user plans to run the package under a pax enabled hardened kernel
xen	Make mono generate code that is considerably faster on xen VMs but slightly slower on for normal systems.

neko

apache	Build Apache modules

nim

experimental	Apply experimental patches
test-js	Enable tests that require Node.js

nqp

clang	Toggle usage of the clang compiler in conjunction with MoarVM
moar	Build the MoarVM backend (experimental/broken)

ocaml

flambda	Enables the Flambda optimizer: A new intermediate representation (introduced in ocaml 4.03) in the depths of the compiler designed to allow for better inlining.
spacetime	Enables the Spacetime memory profiler. See https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/spacetime.html for more information.

perl

ithreads	Enable Perl threads, has some compatibility problems
quadmath	Enable 128bit floating point arithmetic via libquadmath

php

apparmor	Support FPM application confinement through sys-libs/libapparmor
argon2	Enable password hashing algorithm from app-crypt/argon2
avif	Enable AVIF support in bundled libgd
bcmath	Enable the BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics extension
cli	Enable the Command-Line Interface (CLI) SAPI
coverage	Include gcov symbols for test coverage and lcov reports. Only useful for extension developers, and requires GCC.
ctype	Enable the Character type checking (ctype) extension
embed	Enable embed SAPI
enchant	Enable the Enchant spelling library extension using app-text/enchant
ffi	Enable the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) extension using dev-libs/libffi
fileinfo	Enable the File Information extension
filter	Enable the Data Filtering extension
flatfile	Add dbm support for flat files
fpm	Enable the FastCGI Process Manager SAPI
gd	Enable the Image Processing and GD extension (requires media-libs/libjpeg-turbo and media-libs/libpng)
inifile	Add dbm support for .ini files
intl	Enables the intl extension for extended internalization support
jit	Enable PCRE JIT support
ldap-sasl	Add SASL support for the PHP LDAP extension using dev-libs/cyrus-sasl
lmdb	Enable support for dev-db/lmdb db backend
opcache	Enables built-in opcode cache, replacing pecl-apc et al.
pcntl	Enable the Process Control extension
pdo	Enable the PHP Data Objects extension
phar	Enables the phar extension to provide phar archive support
phpdbg	Enable the PHP Debug Command Line SAPI (like gdb for php)
session-mm	Include dev-libs/mm support for session storage
sharedmem	Enable the shmop extension
simplexml	Enable the SimpleXML extension
sodium	Enable support for crypto through dev-libs/libsodium
sysvipc	Enable the PHP System-V semaphore, shared memory and IPC extension
tokenizer	Add support for the PHP file parser
tokyocabinet	Enable support for dev-db/tokyocabinet db backend
webp	Enable webp support for GD in php-7.x
xmlreader	Enable the XMLReader extension
xmlwriter	Enable the XMLWriter extension
xslt	Build the XSL extension

polyml

portable	Build the portable interpreter version of Poly/ML instead of native

python

bluetooth	Build Bluetooth protocol support in socket module
ensurepip	Install the ensurepip module that uses bundled wheels to bootstrap pip and setuptools (if disabled, it will be only possible to use venv `--without-pip`)
libedit	Link readline extension against dev-libs/libedit instead of sys-libs/readline
lto	Optimize the build using Link Time Optimization (LTO)
pgo	Optimize the build using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) by running Python's test suite and collecting statistics based on its performance. This will take longer to build.
valgrind	Disable pymalloc when running under dev-util/valgrind is detected (may incur minor performance penalty even when valgrind is not used)
wininst	Install Windows executables required to create an executable installer for MS Windows

python-exec

native-symlinks	Install generic symlinks like python and python3. If this flag is disabled, only versioned python3.X executables will be available to end users and ebuilds not using python eclasses.

qu-prolog

pedro	Pedro subscription/notification communications system

rakudo

clang	Use Clang to compile the MoarVM backend
moar	Use the MoarVM as backend

ruby

rdoc	Install dev-ruby/rdoc after installing Ruby.
rubytests	Install ruby tests that can only be run after ruby is installed
systemtap	Enable SystemTAP/DTrace tracing

rust

clippy	Install clippy, Rust code linter
dist	Install dist tarballs (used for bootstrapping)
lto	Optimize the build using Link Time Optimization (LTO)
miri	Install miri, an interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (requires USE=nightly, sometimes is broken)
nightly	Enable nightly (UNSTABLE) features (NOTE: it does not install nightly version, just enables features marked as nightly at time of release)
parallel-compiler	Build a multi-threaded rustc (experimental, not tested by upstream)
profiler	Build the profiler runtime and rust-demangler tool (needed for '-C profile-generate' or '-C instrument-coverage' codegen opts)
rust-analyzer	Install rust-analyzer, A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs (language server)
rust-src	Install rust-src, needed by developer tools and for build-std (cross)
rustfmt	Install rustfmt, Rust code formatter
system-bootstrap	Bootstrap using installed rust compiler
system-llvm	Use the system LLVM installation
wasm	Build support for the wasm32-unknown-unknown target

rust-bin

clippy	Install clippy, Rust code linter
rust-analyzer	Install rust-analyzer, A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs (language server)
rust-src	Install rust-src, needed by developer tools and for build-std (cross)
rustfmt	Install rustfmt, Rust code formatter

scala

binary	Install from (Gentoo-compiled) binary instead of building from sources. Set this when you run out of memory during build.

spidermonkey

clang	Use Clang compiler instead of GCC
debug	Enable assertions to allow for easier debugging of programs that link to spidermonkey -- note this will often crash software on regular end-user systems
lto	Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)

swi-prolog

archive	Use libarchive for extension packs
cli	Add support for CLI interfaces based on readline and libedit
ipc	Add support for TIPC inter-process communication
pgo	Optimize the build using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
yaml	Use libyaml for YAML pack

swig

ccache	build ccache-swig(a fast compiler cache)

vala

valadoc	Installs valadoc documentation generation tool

xsb

mariadb	Enable support for the mariadb database backend

yap

R	Enable support for connecting R to Prolog
raptor	Enable support for Raptor RDF syntax libarary

dev-libs

aml

examples	Build and install examples

antlr-c

debugger	Compiles debug info into the library

apache-arrow

brotli	Enable brotli compression support
compute	Build the Arrow Compute Modules
dataset	Build the Arrow Dataset Modules
json	Enables read/write json format
parquet	Enables read/write parquet data format
re2	Build with support for regular expressions using the re2 library

appstream

apt	Enables Debians APT support

appstream-glib

fonts	Enable fonts support for appstream-builder.
stemmer	Add word stemming via dev-libs/snowball-stemmer.

apr

old-kernel	Enable compatibility with older kernels
urandom	Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random

apr-util

nss	Install apr_crypto_nss module
openssl	Install apr_crypto_openssl module

atcore

gui	Build test GUI

bitset

tcmalloc	Use tcmalloc from dev-util/google-perftools for allocations

boehm-gc

large	optimize for large heap size (also increases max root sets)

boost

context	Build and install the Boost.Context (and Boost.Fiber) library and all other Boost libraries that depend on it
debug	Build and install only the debug version of the Boost libraries. Only enable this flag if you're developing against boost.
doc	Install the full API documentation documentation. This takes over 200MB of extra disk space.
nls	Build libboost_locale. This library requires compatible C library interfaces, which might not be provided by uClibc or other embedded libraries.
numpy	Optionally build NumPy extensions when Boost.Python is enabled
stacktrace	Build the full Boost.Stacktrace dynamic library instead of relying on the header-only implementation
tools	Build and install the boost tools (bcp, quickbook, inspect, wave)

botan

boost	Use dev-libs/boost
tools	Install optional tools for e.g. hashing

check

subunit	Enable support for the subunit unit test protocol

crypto++

asm	Support assembly hand optimized crypto functions (i.e. faster run time)

cyberjack

tools	Build and install optional management tools.

cyrus-sasl

authdaemond	Add Courier-IMAP authdaemond unix socket support (net-mail/courier-imap, mail-mta/courier)
ldapdb	Enable ldapdb plugin
openldap	Add ldap support for saslauthd
sample	Enable sample client and server
srp	Enable SRP authentication
urandom	Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random

date

only-c-locale	Build only the C locale

dbus-c++

ecore	Use Ecore integration
glib	Use glib integration

eekboard

libcanberra	Enable support for media-libs/libcanberra
xtest	Enable support for x11-libs/libXtst

efl

avif	Enable AVIF image loader
bmp	Enable WBMP image loader
dds	Enable DDS image loader
drm	Enable DRM engine
eet	Enable Eet image loader
efl-one	Combine multiple core libraries into one libefl.so
fribidi	Enable bidirectional text support
glib	Enable dev-libs/glib support
harfbuzz	Enable complex text shaping and layout support
hyphen	Enable text hyphenation support
ibus	Enable Intelligent Input Bus
ico	Enable Ico image loader
json	Enable lottie animation support
mono	Enable mono bindings
physics	Enable Bullet physics effects and support
pmaps	Enable PMAPS image loader
psd	Enable PSD image loader
scim	Enable Smart Common Input Method
system-lz4	Use system liblz4 instead of bundled one
tga	Enable Tga image loader
tgv	Enable Tgv image loader
tslib	Enable x11-libs/tslib for touchscreen events
unwind	Enable debug support via sys-libs/libunwind
xcf	Enable XCF image loader
xim	Enable X Input Method
xpresent	Enable x11-libs/libXpresent support

elfutils

debuginfod	Enable debuginfod support, both the debuginfod server and the libdebuginfod client library
lzma	Support automatic decompression of LZMA-compressed files and kernel images
utils	Install command-line utilities (all the eu-* programs)

fcgi

html	Install HTML documentation

folks

telepathy	Load contacts from the Telepathy framework
utils	Build the folks-inspect utility

fstrm

utils	Build fstrm utility programs

gf2x

custom-tune	Extra long compile time for tuning hardware specific low-level routines
fft	Build an FFT API for multiplication of 2 polynomials over GF(2)

gjs

sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture

glib

dbus	Enable dependencies required by glib libraries using dbus service to manage settings saving
elf	Enable support for listing and extracting from ELF resource files with gresource tool
mime	Pull in shared MIME database that many glib-based applications require at runtime to detect or open files. Warning: do not disable this flag unless installing on a headless server.
sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture
systemtap	Build support for profiling and tracing using dev-util/systemtap
utils	Install gtester-report utility to generate test report files for your software; build gresource utility with ELF support.

gmime

smime	Enable experimental S/MIME support

gmp

asm	Enable use of hand optimized assembly routines (faster execution)
cpudetection	Enables runtime CPU detection (useful for binpkgs, compatibility on other CPUs). This only works on amd64/x86 at present. If this flag is enabled, GMP will work on a variety of amd64/x86 CPUs and load accelerated routines for use at runtime depending on the CPU in use. This makes it suitable for binary packages (binpkgs). If this flag is disabled, GMP will be tuned for the CPU being used at build-time and may not be usable on other machines.
pic	Force static libraries to be built as PIC to avoid TEXTRELs.

gobject-introspection

doctool	Install g-ir-doc-tool for generating documentation from introspected data

hidapi

fox	Build a x11-libs/fox GUI

imath

large-stack	Enables code to take advantage of large stack support

input-pad

eekboard	Enable support for dev-libs/eekboard
xtest	Enable support for x11-libs/libXtst

intel-compute-runtime

l0	Install the oneAPI Level Zero driver alongside the OpenCL one
vaapi	Support the sharing of surfaces with Video Acceleration API (OpenCL Extension #36)

jemalloc

lazy-lock	Enable lazy locking (only lock when multi-threaded)
prof	Enable allocation profiling
stats	Enable statistics calculation/reporting
xmalloc	Add support for xmalloc (abort-on-out-of-memory)

json-glib

nls	Enable native language support (translations)

kosmindoormap

openinghours	Enable support for highlighting currently open amenities/shops/etc.

kreport

marble	Enable displaying of maps using kde-apps/marble
scripting	Support Qml scripting using dev-qt/qtdeclarative

ktextaddons

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
speech	Enable text-to-speech support

libbase58

tools	Build command line base58 tool

libbytesize

tools	Build bscalc python CLI tool

libcbor

custom-alloc	Custom, dynamically defined allocator support

libcdio

minimal	Only build the libcdio library and little more, just to be used to link against from multimedia players. With this USE flag enabled, none of the command-line utilities are built, nor is the CDDA library.

libcec

cubox	Enable support for enable support for the TDA995x
exynos	Enable support for Exynos chipsets
kernel-cec	Enable support for Linux kernel CEC framework
raspberry-pi	Enable support for the Raspberry Pi
tools	Enable build of cec-client and other test and demo executable tools
udev	Enable detection of USB-CEC port by udev
xrandr	Enable detection of active HDMI using xrandr extensions

libcgroup

daemon	Install the configuration tools and init/config files.
tools	Install the cgroup rules processing daemon and init/config files.

libclc

spirv	Build SPIRV targets

libdbusmenu

gtk	Enable support for GTK+2
gtk3	Enable support for GTK+3

libdex

sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture

libdynd

cuda	Enable NVIDIA CUDA toolkit support

libevent

clock-gettime	Disable use of clock_gettime even if it is available
debug	Support for running in debug mode
malloc-replacement	Support for replacing the memory management functions
mbedtls	Support for net-libs/mbedtls encryption
ssl	Support for dev-libs/openssl encryption
verbose-debug	Support for verbose debug logging

libffi

exec-static-trampoline	Don't rely on dynamic code generation for trampolines.
pax-kernel	Use PaX emulated trampolines, for we can't use PROT_EXEC

libffi-compat

pax-kernel	Use PaX emulated trampolines, for we can't use PROT_EXEC

libfido2

nfc	Enable experimental NFC support

libflatarray

cuda	Enables plugins for NVIDIA GPUs (e.g. CUDAAllocator)

libgcrypt

asm	Enable assembly for optimization
getentropy	Use getentropy function to obtain randomness from the kernel

libgdata

crypt	Use app-crypt/gcr for keeping tokens and passwords in non-pageable memory for improved security
gnome-online-accounts	Enable net-libs/gnome-online-accounts support

libgit2

gssapi	Enable GSSAPI support for SPNEGO auth
ssh	Enable SSH transport support
trace	Enable tracing support

libgit2-glib

ssh	Enable SSH transport support

libgpg-error

common-lisp	Install common-lisp files

libgpiod

tools	Build some useful gpio tools that use libgpiod.

libical

glib	Enable dev-libs/glib interface support

libisoburn

external-filters	Allow the use of external processes as file content filters (Note: this is a potential security risk)
external-filters-setuid	Also allow the use of external setuid processes as file content filters (Note: this is a potential security risk)
frontend-optional	Use dev-tcltk/bwidget which is not strictly required for the frontend
launch-frontend	Enable the tcl gui for xorriso
launch-frontend-setuid	Enable the tcl gui for xorriso under setuid

libisofs

verbose-debug	Enable verbose debug messages

libjcat

gpg	Enable GPG verification support via app-crypt/gpgme
pkcs7	Enable PKCS7 verification support via net-libs/gnutls

liblogging

rfc3195	Enables RFC 3195 protocol (aka syslog-reliable) support. If you don't know what this is, you don't need it!
stdlog	Enables liblogging's core component (think of it as a the next version of the syslog(3) API).

libmemcached

hsieh	Use Hsieh hash algorithm.
libevent	Use the libevent event loop interface.
sasl	Use sasl auth for communications.

libmemcached-awesome

libevent	Use the libevent event loop interface.
sasl	Use sasl auth for communications.

libnfc

pcsc-lite	Enable NFC drivers that require pcsc-lite

libnl

python	Install experimental dev-lang/python bindings
utils	Install command line interface utils

liborcus

spreadsheet-model	Enable the spreadsheet model implementation
tools	Build various low-level parsers

libowfat

diet	Compile against dev-libs/dietlibc

libp11

doc	Generate and install API documentation for the package.

libpcre

bzip2	Add support for pcregrep command to search within bzip2-compressed files (via app-arch/bzip2).
pcre16	Build PCRE library for 16 bit characters (e.g. UTF-16).
pcre32	Build PCRE library for 32 bit characters (e.g. UTF-32).
readline	Add support for command line editing to pcretest, through sys-libs/readline.
zlib	Add support for pcregrep command to search within gzip-compressed files (via sys-libs/zlib).

libpcre2

bzip2	Add support for pcregrep command to search within bzip2-compressed files (via app-arch/bzip2).
pcre16	Build PCRE library for 16 bit characters (e.g. UTF-16).
pcre32	Build PCRE library for 32 bit characters (e.g. UTF-32).
readline	Add support for command line editing to pcretest, through sys-libs/readline.
zlib	Add support for pcregrep command to search within gzip-compressed files (via sys-libs/zlib).

libpeas

glade	Install the glade catalog
python	Build support for loading dev-lang/python plugins

libpy

sparsehash	Include libpy wrappers for dev-cpp/sparsehash

librdkafka

lz4	Enable support for Kafka's LZ4 compression based on KIP-57 (uses app-arch/lz4)

librelp

gnutls	Use GnuTLS
openssl	Use OpenSSL

libsecp256k1

asm	Enable x86_64 assembly optimisation
ecdh	Enable ECDH shared secret computation
ellswift	Enable ElligatorSwift encoding for public keys
endomorphism	Enable endomorphism
experimental	Allow experimental USE flags
extrakeys	Enable extrakeys module
lowmem	Reduce runtime memory usage at the expense of performance (ecmult window size 4, gen precision 2)
recovery	Enable ECDSA pubkey recovery module
schnorr	Enable Schnorr signature module
test-openssl	Enable OpenSSL comparison tests

libslz

tools	Install additional tools (zenc, zdec)

libsodium

asm	Enables assembly implementations
urandom	Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random

libtermkey

demos	Install demos, which pulls in dev-libs/glib

libtomcrypt

libtommath	Uses dev-libs/libtommath for mathematical operations
tomsfastmath	Uses dev-libs/tomsfastmath for mathematical operations

libucl

regex	Enable regex support
sign	Enable signatures check
urls	Enable URLs fetch
utils	Install utils for checking other configs

libunibreak

doc	Install html API documentation.

libverto

glib	Support event loops using dev-libs/glib
libev	Support event loops using dev-libs/libev
libevent	Support event loops using dev-libs/libevent
tevent	Support event loops using sys-libs/tevent

libvoikko

expvfst	Enable experimental features of VFST morphology backend
hfst	Enable HFST morphology backend

libxlsxwriter

openssl	Use dev-libs/openssl for MD5 digest

libxmlb

stemmer	Enable language stemming support

libzia

ftdi	Enable support for FTDI USB chips

libzip

mbedtls	Use net-libs/mbedtls as TLS provider
tools	Install binary tools to compare, modify and merge zip files

link-grammar

aspell	Adds support for app-text/aspell spell checker
hunspell	Adds support for app-text/hunspell spell checker

log4cplus

explicit-initialization	Require explicit initialization
iconv	Use inconv for wchar_t <-> char conversions. See also log4cplus's unicode.txt documentation
server	Build the logging server

log4cxx

smtp	Offer SMTP support via net-libs/libesmtp

m17n-lib

X	Build the Graphical User Interface API and utilities
anthy	Enable support for app-i18n/anthy input method
athena	Enable the MIT Athena widget set (x11-libs/libXaw)
gd	Build API and utilities based on media-libs/gd. This flag is only meaningful if the X USE flag is also enabled
libotf	Use dev-libs/libotf to handle OpenType fonts
libxml2	Use dev-libs/libxml2 to parse XML

mimalloc

hardened	Enable exploit mitigations

modsecurity

fuzzyhash	Support fuzzy hash computations (to detect malware, for example) using the app-crypt/ssdeep package.
geoip2	Pull in dev-libs/libmaxminddb for use by the SecGeoLookupDb directive.
json	Suppose JSON in the request body parser through dev-libs/yajl.
lmdb	Add LMDB backend support
pcre2	Use dev-libs/libpcre2 as regex implementation

ncnn

tools	Enable installation of various tools in addition to the library

nettle

asm	Support assembly hand optimized crypto functions (i.e. faster run time)

nss

cacert	Include root/class3 certs from CAcert (https://www.cacert.org/)
utils	Compile and install all extra binaries, such as certutil, modutil and few more

onigmo

combination-explosion-check	enable combination explosion check
crnl-as-line-terminator	enable CR+NL as line terminator

oniguruma

crnl-as-line-terminator	Enable CR+NL as line terminator

opencryptoki

tpm	Enable support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) using app-crypt/trousers

openct

debug	Add debug output to the driver library for pcsc-lite.
pcsc-lite	Build a driver library for sys-apps/pcsc-lite, providing PC/SC API access to devices supported by OpenCT.

openobex

irda	Enable IrDA support

opensc

ctapi	Use CT-API for accessing Smartcard hardware
notify	Enable notifications
openct	Use dev-libs/openct (and CT-API) for accessing Smartcard hardware
pace	Use dev-libs/openpace for EAC version 2 support
pcsc-lite	Use sys-apps/pcsc-lite (and PC/SC API) for accessing Smartcard hardware
secure-messaging	Enable secure messaging

openssl

asm	Support assembly hand optimized crypto functions (i.e. faster run time)
bindist	Disable/Restrict EC algorithms (as they seem to be patented) -- note: changes the ABI
fips	Enable FIPS provider
ktls	Enable support for Kernel implementation of TLS (kTLS)
rfc3779	Enable support for RFC 3779 (X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers)
sslv2	Support for the old/insecure SSLv2 protocol -- note: not required for TLS/https
sslv3	Support for the old/insecure SSLv3 protocol -- note: not required for TLS/https
tls-compression	Enable support for discouraged TLS compression
tls-heartbeat	Enable the Heartbeat Extension in TLS and DTLS
weak-ssl-ciphers	Build support for SSL/TLS ciphers that are considered "weak"

openssl-compat

asm	Support assembly hand optimized crypto functions (i.e. faster run time)
bindist	Disable/Restrict EC algorithms (as they seem to be patented) -- note: changes the ABI
rfc3779	Enable support for RFC 3779 (X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers)
sslv2	Support for the old/insecure SSLv2 protocol -- note: not required for TLS/https
sslv3	Support for the old/insecure SSLv3 protocol -- note: not required for TLS/https
tls-compression	Enable support for discouraged TLS compression
tls-heartbeat	Enable the Heartbeat Extension in TLS and DTLS
weak-ssl-ciphers	Build support for SSL/TLS ciphers that are considered "weak"

optix

headers-only	Download and install only the header files

pkcs11-helper

nss	Enable NSS crypto engine

pocl

accel	Enable the generic hardware accelerator device driver
conformance	Ensures that certain build options which would result in non-conformant pocl build stay disabled. Note that this does not quarantee a fully conformant build of pocl.
cuda	Enable the CUDA backend for NVIDIA GPUs
float-conversion	When enabled, OpenCL printf() call's f/e/g formatters are handled by pocl. When disabled, these are handled by system C library.
hardening	Enable hardening against various attacks. May worsen performance
hwloc	Enable hwloc support
lto	Adds support for link time optimization
memmanager	Enables custom memory manager. Except for special circumstances, this should be disabled

poco

7z	Add Support for the 7z archive format
activerecord	Add ActiveRecord support
cppparser	Build and install a minimal C++ parser
crypto	Encryption and digital signing classes
data	Database abstraction layer to easily send/retrieve data to/from various databases
file2pagecompiler	Utility to convert ordinary files to Page Compiler source files
json	Add JSON support
jwt	Add JSON Web Token support
mariadb	Prefer dev-db/mariadb-connector-c over dev-db/mysql-connector-c
mongodb	Add dev-db/mongodb support
net	Classes to write network clients & servers
pagecompiler	Simple compiler translating HTML pages containing embedded C++ code into HTTPRequestHandler classes
pocodoc	POCO documentation generator
prometheus	Add prometheus monitoring system support
util	Several utility classes (like logger, timer, config file parser)
zip	Add support for the zip & gz archive formats

ppl

cdd	Build the ppl_lcdd program for vertex/facet enumeration accepting the same input format as the programs shipped with sci-libs/cddlib and sci-libs/lrslib
lpsol	Build the ppl_lpsol linear program solver that uses sci-mathematics/glpk for its input routines

qcoro5

network	Build dev-qt/qtnetwork support
qml	Enable QML/QtQuick support via dev-qt/qtdeclarative
testlib	Install coroutine-friendly versions of dev-qt/qttest macros
websockets	Build dev-qt/qtwebsockets support

qhotkey

qt6	Use Qt6 dependencies

quazip

qt5	Build with Qt5 support
qt6	Build with Qt6 support

raft

zfs	ZFS support

sentry-native

breakpad	Use dev-util/breakpad as the crash handler
curl	Enable support for automated uploading of crash reports

serd

tools	Build command line utilities

serdisplib

tools	Build optional tools.

sexpp

cli	Build sexp console application

simdjson

all-impls	Enable all implementations rather than only onem
tools	Build and install extra command line tools

softhsm

gost	Enable gost algorithm
migration-tool	Build db migration tool

sord

tools	Build command line utilities

starpu

cuda	Enable NVIDIA CUDA toolkit support
gcc-plugin	Enable GCC extension plugin (experimental)
opencl	Enable OpenCL support
spinlock-check	Enable spinlock check

thrift

libevent	Build support for dev-libs/libevent

tinyxml

stl	Compile with TIXML_USE_STL support

tntnet

server	Enable tntnet server daemon

totem-pl-parser

archive	Enables ISO detection with app-arch/libarchive
crypt	Support AmazonAMZ decoding with dev-libs/libgcrypt
uchardet	Enable charset discovery via app-i18n/uchardet

tre

agrep	Build agrep tool
alloca	Enable if you want TRE to use alloca() instead of malloc() when allocating memory needed for regexec operations
approx	Enable the approximate matching functionality

weston

desktop	Enable the desktop shell
drm	Enable drm compositor support
editor	Install wayland-editor example application
fullscreen	Enable fullscreen shell
gles2	Use GLESv2 cairo instead of full GL
headless	Headless backend and a noop renderer, mainly for testing purposes
ivi	Enable the IVI shell
kiosk	Enable the kiosk shell
pipewire	Enable virtual remote output with Pipewire on DRM backend
rdp	Enable Remote Desktop Protocol compositor support
remoting	Enable plugin to stream output to remote hosts using media-libs/gstreamer
resize-optimization	Increase performance, allocate more RAM. Recommended to disable on Raspberry Pi
screen-sharing	Enable screen-sharing through RDP
seatd	Enable support for rootless session via sys-auth/seatd
wayland-compositor	Enable Wayland compositor support
xwayland	Enable ability support native X11 applications

xapian

inmemory	Enabled inmemory backend db support
remote	Enabled remote backend db support

xerces-c

iconv	Use iconv (virtual/libiconv) as message loader and transcoder (in general it would be possible to use iconv only as message loader and something else like icu or the native method as transcoder and vice-versa, but this is a less common case and hard to handle)
threads	Enable threading support through pthread (or other libraries on AIX, IRIX, HPUX, Solars). Highly recommended

xmlrpc-c

abyss	Build the Abyss mini web-server.
libxml2	Use dev-libs/libxml2 to parse XML instead of the internal expat library.
threads	Controls whether to build the Abyss web-server with pthreads or fork 'threading'.

xmlsec

gcrypt	Install xmlsec-gcrypt library
gnutls	Install xmlsec-gnutls library
http	Allow fetching over HTTP via libxml2.
nss	Install xmlsec-nss library
openssl	Install xmlsec-openssl library

yaz

ziffy	Install ziffy, a promiscuous Z39.50 APDU sniffer

dev-lisp

clisp

hyperspec	Use local hyperspec instead of online version
svm	Build CLISP with support for the Support Vector Machine module

clx

doc	Builds documentation

cmucl

X	Build CLX, CLM, or Hemlock
doc	Installs package documentation
source	Include source code for CMUCL in installation

ecl

gengc	Use generational garbage collection (experimental)
precisegc	Use type information during garbage collection (experimental)

gcl

ansi	Build a GCL with ANSI support (else build a traditional CLtL1 image)
athena	Build xgcl - an interface to x11-libs/libXaw

sbcl

system-bootstrap	Bootstrap SBCL using either system SBCL installation or dev-lisp/clisp

dev-lua

lua-cjson

internal-fpconv	Enable internal number conversion routines, can increase overall performance by up to 50%

dev-ml

lablgtk

glade	Enable gnome-base/libglade bindings compilation
gnomecanvas	Enable gnome-base/libgnomecanvas bindings compilation
sourceview	Enable GtkSourceView (x11-libs/gtksourceview) support

logs

cli	Enables the Logs_cli library that provides command line support for controlling Logs.
fmt	Enables the Logs_fmt reporter.
lwt	Enables the Logs_lwt library that provides Lwt logging functions.

ocaml-fileutils

ocamlopt	Whether the OCaml native code compiler is used. Must be set globally and match dev-lang/ocaml.

ocaml-gettext

ocamlopt	Whether the OCaml native code compiler is used. Must be set globally and match dev-lang/ocaml.

ocaml-gettext-camomile

ocamlopt	Whether the OCaml native code compiler is used. Must be set globally and match dev-lang/ocaml.

ocaml-gettext-stub

ocamlopt	Whether the OCaml native code compiler is used. Must be set globally and match dev-lang/ocaml.

ocamlnet

httpd	Enables net-httpd web server component
zip	Enables netzip support to read/write gzip data using object channels

stdlib-shims

ocamlopt	Whether the OCaml native code compiler is used. Must be set globally and match dev-lang/ocaml.

tiny_httpd

camlzip	Interface to camlzip for tiny_httpd

uutf

utftrip	Builds and install the utftrip executable: Among other things, reads unicode on stdin and rewrites it on stdout.

zarith

mpir	Use MPIR library instead of GMP.

dev-perl

App-Nopaste

browser	Spawn browser with pasted page
clipboard	copying of URLs with -x/--copy
gitlab	Ensure git is installed for reading/passing GitLab authentication
pastebin	pastebin.com support

Boulder

genbank	Provide support with Boulder::Genbank for decoding Genbank data records
store	Provide support with Boulder::Store for persisting Stone objects

Business-ISBN

barcode	Install dev-perl/GD-Barcode for rendering ISBN numbers as barcodes

Config-Any

conf	Install dev-perl/Config-General to support decoding .conf/.cnf files
ini	Install dev-perl/Config-Tiny to support decoding INI config files
json	Install support libraries to support decoding JSON config files
xml	Install support libraries to support decoding XML config files
yaml	Install support libraries to support decoding YAML config files

Cookie-Baker

xs	Install dev-perl/Cookie-Baker-XS for accelerated performance

Coro

ev	Build support for using dev-perl/EV as an event-loop via Coro::EV
event	Build support for using dev-perl/Event as an event-loop via Coro::Event

DBD-MariaDB

mariadb	Use dev-db/mariadb-connector-c as the client library
mysql	Use dev-db/mysql-connector-c as the client library

DBD-SQLite

system-sqlite	Use the system-wide dev-db/sqlite installation

DBD-mysql

mariadb	Use dev-db/mariadb-connector-c as the client library
mysql	Use dev-db/mysql-connector-c as the client library
ssl	Compile in support for SSL connections via libmysqlclient

DBIx-Class

admin	Modules required for the DBIx::Class administrative library
admin-script	Modules required for the CLI DBIx::Class interface dbicadmin
deploy	Modules required for "deploy" in DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI and "deploymen_statements" in DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI
replicated	Modules required for DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Replicated

File-HomeDir

xdg	Ensure XDG Semantics for returned paths via x11-misc/xdg-user-dirs

File-Which

pwhich	Install dev-perl/App-pwhich which used to be a part of this package

GD

animgif	Enable animated gif support
fcgi	Build for FastCGI compatibility via dev-libs/fcgi instead of using PerlIO

HTML-Mason

modperl	Enable www-apache/mod_perl support

HTTP-Entity-Parser

xs	Install C-Based dependieces for faster performance

JSON

xs	Install C-based dev-perl/JSON-XS for faster performance

JSON-MaybeXS

xs	Install a C-Based backend to make JSON encode/decode fast

List-MoreUtils

xs	Install C-Based backend implementation for performance

MCE

sereal	Install dev-perl/Sereal-Encoder and decoder for faster worker IPC

Mail-IMAPClient

md5	Install support for DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5 Authentication
ntlm	Install support for NTLM Authentication
ssl	Install support for SSL Connections
zlib	Install support for COMPRESS DEFLATE connections

Net-SSH2

gcrypt	Use libgcrypt instead of openssl

PDL

badval	Enable bad values support
hdf	Enable HDF (version 4) format support
netpbm	Enable NETPBM and MPEG support
pdl2	Build pdf2 shell (requires Devel-REPL)
pgplot	Enable PGPLOT plotting capabilities

Ref-Util

xs	Install C-Based dev-perl/Ref-Util-XS for accelerated performance

Sub-Name

suggested	Install extra dependencies needed for extended regression tests

Sysadm-Install

hammer	Enable hammer() funtion to run a command in the shell and simulate a user hammering the ENTER key to accept defaults on prompts

Test-Warnings

suggested	Install optional dependencies for extra tests

Text-CSV

xs	Install dev-perl/Text-CSV_XS for accelerated decoding

WWW-Form-UrlEncoded

xs	Install C-Based dependieces for faster performance

perl-headers

debug	Add source locations in generated .ph files to assist with debugging when errors occur
sizeof-warning	Include logic to warn when a .ph file tries to use a sizeof() that is unknown

dev-php

PEAR-HTTP_Request2

curl	Force dev-lang/php to be compiled with curl extension
fileinfo	Force dev-lang/php to be compiled with fileinfo extension
ssl	Force dev-lang/php to be compiled with ssl extension
zlib	Force dev-lang/php to be compiled with zlib extension

PEAR-PHP_Beautifier

cli	Require dev-lang/php to be built with the "cli" SAPI and install the php_beautifier script.

maxmind-db-reader

extension	Build the C extension that uses dev-libs/libmaxminddb

pecl-apcu

lock-pthreadmutex	Enable pthread mutex locking
lock-pthreadrw	Enable pthread read/write locking
lock-semaphore	Enable semaphore locks instead of fcntl
lock-spinlock	Enable spin locks (EXPERIMENTAL)

pecl-event

extra	Add support of the Libevent extra API

pecl-memcached

igbinary	Enable support for the igbinary serializer
json	Enable support for json serialization

pecl-redis

igbinary	Enables igbinary serialisation support
json	Enables json serializer support

swoole

http2	Add support for HTTP/2 protocol via net-libs/nghttp2

dev-python

PyQt5

bluetooth	Build bindings for the QtBluetooth module
dbus	Build bindings for the QtDBus module
declarative	Build bindings for the QtQml and QtQuick modules and enable the qmlscene plugin
designer	Build bindings for the QtDesigner module and enable the designer plugin
gui	Build bindings for the QtGui module
help	Build bindings for the QtHelp module
location	Build bindings for the QtLocation module
multimedia	Build bindings for the QtMultimedia module
network	Build bindings for the QtNetwork module
opengl	Build bindings for the QtOpenGL module
positioning	Build bindings for the QtPositioning module
printsupport	Build bindings for the QtPrintSupport module
sensors	Build bindings for the QtSensors module
serialport	Build bindings for the QtSerialPort module
speech	Build bindings for the QtTextToSpeech module
sql	Build bindings for the QtSql module
svg	Build bindings for the QtSvg module
testlib	Build bindings for the QtTest module
webchannel	Build bindings for the QtWebChannel module
websockets	Build bindings for the QtWebSockets module
widgets	Build bindings for the QtWidgets module
x11extras	Build bindings for the QtX11Extras module
xmlpatterns	Build bindings for the QtXmlPatterns module

PyQt6

bluetooth	Build bindings for the QtBluetooth module
dbus	Build bindings for the QtDBus module
designer	Build bindings for the QtDesigner module and enable the designer plugin
gui	Build bindings for the QtGui module
help	Build bindings for the QtHelp module
multimedia	Build bindings for the QtMultimedia module
network	Build bindings for the QtNetwork module
nfc	Build bindings for the QtNfc module
opengl	Build bindings for the QtOpenGL module
pdfium	Build bindings for the QtPdf module (uses pdfium from dev-qt/qtwebengine)
positioning	Build bindings for the QtPositioning module
printsupport	Build bindings for the QtPrintSupport module
qml	Build bindings for the QtQml module and enable the qml plugin
quick	Build bindings for the QtQuick module
quick3d	Build bindings for the QtQuick3D module
sensors	Build bindings for the QtSensors module
serialport	Build bindings for the QtSerialPort module
spatialaudio	Build bindings for the QtSpatialAudio module
speech	Build bindings for the QtTextToSpeech module
sql	Build bindings for the QtSql module
svg	Build bindings for the QtSvg module
testlib	Build bindings for the QtTest module
webchannel	Build bindings for the QtWebChannel module
websockets	Build bindings for the QtWebSockets module
widgets	Build bindings for the QtWidgets module
xml	Build bindings for the QtXml module

PyQt6-WebEngine

quick	Build bindings for the QtWebEngineQuick module
widgets	Build bindings for the QtWebEngineWidgets module

QtPy

designer	Pull in bindings for the QtDesigner module and enable the designer plugin
gui	Pull in bindings for the QtGui module
help	Pull in bindings for the QtHelp module
multimedia	Pull in QtMultimedia and QtMultimediaWidgets modules
network	Pull in bindings for the QtNetwork module
opengl	Pull in bindings for the QtOpenGL module
positioning	Pull in bindings for the QtPositioning module
printsupport	Pull in bindings for the QtPrintSupport module
pyqt5	Use dev-python/PyQt5 as Qt for Python implementation
pyqt6	Use dev-python/PyQt6 as Qt for Python implementation
pyside2	Use dev-python/pyside2 as Qt for Python implementation
pyside6	Use dev-python/pyside6 as Qt for Python implementation
qml	Build bindings for the QtQml
quick	Build bindings for the QtQuick
serialport	Pull in bindings for the QtSerialPort module
sql	Pull in bindings for the QtSql module
svg	Pull in bindings for the QtSvg module
testlib	Pull in bindings for the QtTest module
webchannel	Pull in bindings for the QtWebChannel module
webengine	Pull in QtWebEngine and QtWebEngineWidgets modules
websockets	Pull in bindings for the QtWebSockets module
widgets	Pull in bindings for the QtWidgets module
xml	Pull in QtXml module

autobahn

xbr	Add support for XBR decentralized data markets and etherium blockchain

bpython

clipboard	Enable copying to clipboard using dev-python/pyperclip
jedi	Enable autocompletion using dev-python/jedi
watch	Enable watching paths using dev-python/watchdog

cvxopt

dsdp	Use interior point library sci-libs/dsdp
glpk	Use GNU Linear Programming Kit sci-mathematics/glpk

dnspython

dnssec	Use dev-python/cryptography to enable low-level DNSSEC RSA, DSA, ECDSA and EdDSA signature validation.

editorconfig-core-py

cli	Install command line interface as well as python library

frozenlist

native-extensions	Compile native C extensions (speedups, instead of using Python fallback code).

httpx

cli	Install the CLI "httpx" client.

hypothesis

cli	Install a CLI tool used to write tests.

icalendar

doc	Generate examples and other extra documentation

immutables

native-extensions	Compiles native "C" extensions (speedups, instead of using Python fallback code).

ipython

nbconvert	Enable support for converting notebooks to various formats using app-text/pandoc
notebook	Install requirements for the web notebook based on dev-python/tornado

markdown-exec

ansi	Enable support for rendering ANSI colours in HTML code blocks

matplotlib

excel	Pull dev-python/xlwt for the exceltools toolkit
gtk3	Enable x11-libs/gtk+:3 support
webagg	Enable webagg backend that uses dev-python/tornado

mido

portmidi	Support using media-libs/portmidi as MIDI back-end
rtmidi	Support using media-libs/rtmidi as MIDI back-end

mkdocs-material

social	Install the dependencies of the "social" plugin.

mpmath

matplotlib	Add support for dev-python/matplotlib

msgpack

native-extensions	Compiles native "C" extensions (speedups, instead of using python fallback code).

multidict

native-extensions	Compile native C extensions (speedups, instead of using Python fallback code).

pandas

full-support	Pull all packages to give pandas full support

paramiko

server	Enable server feature

peewee

native-extensions	Compiles native C extension for more complete SQLite3 support.

pillow

imagequant	Build with Image Quantization Library support

pivy

quarter	Use media-libs/quarter for GUI bindings
soqt	Use media-libs/SoQt for GUI bindings

py-amqp

extras	Install extra tools to generate initial Python mod from an AMQP XML file

pyarrow

parquet	Enables read/write parquet data format

pydantic

native-extensions	Compiles native "C" extensions.

pyglet

image	Enable support for image formats other than PNG and BMP

pymongo

native-extensions	Compiles native C extensions
test-full	Run test suite in full, including tests that run a local database instance.

pyocr

cuneiform	Enable support for the app-text/cuneiform OCR engine
tesseract	Enable support for the app-text/tesseract OCR engine

pypax

ptpax	Enable PT_PAX_FLAGS support.
xtpax	Enable XATTR_PAX_FLAGS support.

pypy

full-stdlib	Install complete stdlib as necessary to use PyPy for general purpose programs. By default, only a limited subset that is used when building dev-python/pypy3-exe is installed. Note that PyPy2.7's stdlib contains multiple known vulnerabilities.

pypy-exe

low-memory	Build using PyPy with the engine configured towards low memory footprint. This makes it possible to build PyPy using ~3.5G of RAM on amd64 and ~half of that on x86, at the cost of lengthened build time.

pypy3-exe

low-memory	Build using PyPy with the engine configured towards low memory footprint. This makes it possible to build PyPy using ~3.5G of RAM on amd64 and ~half of that on x86, at the cost of lengthened build time.

pypy3_10

ensurepip	Install the ensurepip module that uses bundled wheels to bootstrap pip and setuptools (if disabled, it will be only possible to use venv `--without-pip`)

pypy3_10-exe

low-memory	Build using PyPy with the engine configured towards low memory footprint. This makes it possible to build PyPy using ~3.5G of RAM on amd64 and ~half of that on x86, at the cost of lengthened build time.

pypy3_9

ensurepip	Install the ensurepip module that uses bundled wheels to bootstrap pip and setuptools (if disabled, it will be only possible to use venv `--without-pip`)

pypy3_9-exe

low-memory	Build using PyPy with the engine configured towards low memory footprint. This makes it possible to build PyPy using ~3.5G of RAM on amd64 and ~half of that on x86, at the cost of lengthened build time.

pyside2

3d	Build Qt3DCore, Qt3DAnimation, Qt3DExtras, Qt3DInput, Qt3DLogic, and Qt3DRender modules
charts	Build QtCharts module
concurrent	Build QtConcurrent module
datavis	Build QtDataVisualization module
designer	Build QtDesigner and QtUiTools modules
gles2-only	Build QtGui "QOpenGL*" classes
gui	Build QtGui module
help	Build QtHelp module
location	Build QtLocation module
multimedia	Build QtMultimedia and QtMultimediaWidgets modules
network	Build QtNetwork module
positioning	Build QtPositioning module
printsupport	Build QtPrintSupport module
qml	Build QtQml module
quick	Build QtQuick and QtQuickWidgets modules
script	Build QtScript module
scripttools	Build QtScriptTools module
scxml	Build QtScxml module
sensors	Build QtSensors module
speech	Build QtTextToSpeech module
sql	Build QtSql module
svg	Build QtSvg module
testlib	Build QtTest module
webchannel	Build QtWebChannel module
webengine	Build QtWebEngine and QtWebEngineWidgets modules
websockets	Build QtWebSockets module
widgets	Build QtWidgets module
x11extras	Build QtX11Extras module
xml	Build QtXml module
xmlpatterns	Build QtXmlPatterns module

pyside6

charts	Build QtCharts module
concurrent	Build QtConcurrent module
designer	Build QtDesigner and QtUiTools modules
gles2-only	Build QtGui "QOpenGL*" classes
gui	Build QtGui module
help	Build QtHelp module
multimedia	Build QtMultimedia and QtMultimediaWidgets modules
network	Build QtNetwork module
network-auth	Build QtNetworkAuth module
positioning	Build QtPositioning module
printsupport	Build QtPrintSupport module
qml	Build QtQml module
quick	Build QtQuick and QtQuickWidgets modules
quick3d	Build QtQuick3D and QtQuickWidgets modules
serialport	Build QtSerialPort modules
sql	Build QtSql module
svg	Build QtSvg module
testlib	Build QtTest module
webchannel	Build QtWebChannel module
webengine	Build QtWebEngine and QtWebEngineWidgets modules
websockets	Build QtWebSockets module
widgets	Build QtWidgets module
xml	Build QtXml module

pytables

cpudetection	Enables runtime CPU detection (useful for bindist, compatibility on other CPUs)

python-box

native-extensions	Compiles native C extensions

python-lsp-server

all-plugins	Pull in all optional plugins

python-mpd2

twisted	Enable twisted support

python-stdnum

vies	Enable VIES

pyudev

qt5	Install PyQt5 bindings

pyzmq

drafts	Enable draft API support

qiskit-terra

visualization	Enable visualization modules

rarfile

compressed	Enables the module to support compressed v3 archives by calling the app-arch/unrar.

reedsolo

native-extensions	Compile native C extensions.

rfc3986

idna	enable support for the IDNA specification (RFC 5891)

rpyc

gdb	Run tests depending on sys-devel/gdb
numpy	Run tests depending on dev-python/numpy, dev-python/pandas

shiboken2

docstrings	Expose documentation as Python docstrings (recommended)
numpy	Implicitly convert passed NumPy arrays to Qt lists
vulkan	Generate "QSurface::VulkanSurface" bindings

shiboken6

docstrings	Expose documentation as Python docstrings (recommended)
numpy	Implicitly convert passed NumPy arrays to Qt lists
vulkan	Generate "QSurface::VulkanSurface" bindings

simplejson

native-extensions	Compiles native "C" extensions (speedups, instead of using Python fallback code).

subprocess-tee

test-full	Enable full test mode. Pulls in many additional dependencies, and requires having been emerged without this flag first in order to avoid a circular dependency.

sympy

aesara	Add support for dev-python/aesara
imaging	Add support for dev-python/pillow
ipython	Add support for dev-python/ipython
mathml	Add support for mathml
pyglet	Use dev-python/pyglet for plots and print preview
symengine	Add support for a dev-python/symengine backend
texmacs	Add app-office/texmacs interface

tpm2-pytss

fapi	Enable feature API (requires tpm2-tss be compile with thes same)

translate-toolkit

html	Support conversion between po and html files
ical	Support conversion between po and ical files
ini	Support conversion between po and ini files
subtitles	Support conversion between po and sub files
yaml	Support YAML format

twisted

conch	include Twisted SSHv2 implementation
http2	include http2 support
serial	include serial port support

urllib3

brotli	Enable support for brotli compression

websockets

native-extensions	Compiles native C extensions

zeep

async	Add async support

dev-qt

designer

declarative	Build the qdeclarativeview plugin

linguist-tools

qml	Enable QML support in lupdate

qdoc

qml	Enable QML/JS parsing support

qt-creator

clang	Build clang-based plugins for C/C++ development (code model, formatting, static analysis)
designer	Enable designer for QtWidgets-based UIs
help	Enable the integrated dev-qt/qt-docs viewer (also needed for examples)
qmldesigner	Build QmlDesigner and related plugins (Insight, StudioWelcome)
serialterminal	Build the serial terminal plugin
tracing	Build plugins requiring tracing capabilities (CtfVisualizer, PerfProfiler, QmlProfiler)
webengine	Use dev-qt/qtwebengine with the help USE rather than bundled litehtml

qt-docs

3d	Install documentation for dev-qt/qt3d
activeqt	Install documentation for ActiveQt (unpackaged, Windows-only)
assistant	Install documentation for dev-qt/assistant
bluetooth	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtbluetooth
charts	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtcharts
concurrent	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtconcurrent
connectivity	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtconnectivity
datavis	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtdatavis3d (unpackaged for Qt6)
declarative	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtdeclarative
designer	Install documentation for dev-qt/designer
gamepad	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtgamepad (available in qt overlay only)
graphicaleffects	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtgraphicaleffects
grpc	Install documentation for QtGRPC (unpackaged)
gui	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtgui
help	Install documentation for dev-qt/qthelp
html	Install documentation in HTML format
httpserver	Install documentation for QtHTTPServer (unpackaged)
imageformats	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtimageformats
linguist	Install documentation for dev-qt/linguist
location	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtlocation
lottie	Install documentation for QtLottie (unpackaged)
multimedia	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtmultimedia
network	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtnetwork
networkauth	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtnetworkauth
positioning	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtpositioning
printsupport	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtprintsupport
qch	Install documentation in QCH format
qdoc	Install documentation for dev-qt/qdoc
qt5compat	Install documentation for dev-qt/qt5compat
quick3d	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtquick3d
quick3dphysics	Install documentation for QtQuick3DPhysics (unpackaged)
quickcontrols	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtquickcontrols
quickcontrols2	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtquickcontrols2
quickeffectmaker	Install documentation for QtQuickEffectMaker (unpackaged)
remoteobjects	Install documentation for QtRemoteObjects (unpackaged)
script	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtscript
scxml	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtscxml
sensors	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtsensors
serialbus	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtserialbus (unpacakged for Qt6)
serialport	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtserialport
shadertools	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtshadertools
speech	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtspeech
sql	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtsql
svg	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtsvg
timeline	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtquicktimeline
tools	Install documentation for dev-qt/qttools
virtualkeyboard	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard
wayland	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtwayland
webchannel	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtwebchannel
webengine	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtwebengine
websockets	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtwebsockets
webview	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtwebview (unpackaged for Qt6)
widgets	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtwidgets
x11extras	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtx11extras
xmlpatterns	Install documentation for dev-qt/qtxmlpatterns

qt3d

gamepad	Add support for gamepad hardware via dev-qt/qtgamepad
qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings

qt5compat

qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports

qtbase

X	Build the XCB platform plugin and enable X11 integration
brotli	Enable support for Brotli decompression
concurrent	Build Qt6Concurrent module
dbus	Build Qt6DBus module
eglfs	Build the EGL Full Screen/Single Surface platform plugin
evdev	Enable support for input devices via evdev
gssapi	Enable support for GSSAPI (virtual/krb5)
gtk	Build the GTK platform theme plugin
gui	Build Qt6Gui module
libinput	Enable support for input devices via dev-libs/libinput
libproxy	Use net-libs/libproxy for automatic HTTP/SOCKS proxy configuration
network	Build Qt6Network module
renderdoc	Enable support for capturing graphic's API calls using media-gfx/renderdoc
sql	Build Qt6Sql module
tslib	Enable support for touchscreen devices via x11-libs/tslib
widgets	Build Qt6Widgets module

qtbluetooth

qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports

qtcharts

qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports

qtconnectivity

nfc	Enable support for the Near Field Communication protocol

qtcore

old-kernel	Disable syscalls not available on Linux kernels older than 4.11
systemd	Enable native journald logging support

qtdatavis3d

qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports

qtdeclarative

localstorage	Build the LocalStorage import for QtQuick (requires QtSql)
opengl	Enable OpenGL support
sql	Enable QtSQL support
widgets	Enable QtWidgets support

qtdiag

network	Report network information
widgets	Report widget style information

qtgamepad

evdev	Enable support for input devices via evdev
qml	Build QML bindings

qtgui

X	Build the XCB platform plugin and enable X11 integration
egl	Enable EGL integration
eglfs	Build the EGL Full Screen/Single Surface platform plugin
evdev	Enable support for input devices via evdev
ibus	Build the IBus input method plugin
libinput	Enable support for input devices via dev-libs/libinput
linuxfb	Enable Linux framebuffer support for embedded devices
tslib	Enable support for touchscreen devices via x11-libs/tslib
tuio	Build plugin to receive touch events over the TUIO protocol
wayland	Provide dev-qt/qtwayland to ensure Qt applications can be run as Wayland clients

qtmultimedia

gstreamer	Enable audio support via media-libs/gstreamer
qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports
widgets	Build the QtMultimediaWidgets module

qtnetwork

gssapi	Enable support for GSSAPI (virtual/krb5)
libproxy	Use net-libs/libproxy for automatic HTTP/SOCKS proxy configuration

qtpositioning

geoclue	Use enhanced location information from app-misc/geoclue
nmea	Build plugin for parsing NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association) sentences
qml	Build QML bindings

qtquickcontrols

widgets	Enable QtWidgets support

qtquickcontrols2

widgets	Enable QtWidgets support

qtscript

scripttools	Build the QtScriptTools module (requires QtWidgets)

qtscxml

qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports

qtsensors

qml	Build QML bindings

qtspeech

flite	Enable text-to-speech synthesizer plugin using app-accessibility/flite engine
qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports
speechd	Enable text-to-speech synthesizer plugin using app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher engine

qttools

assistant	Build Qt Assistant and the QtHelp module
clang	Enable using libclang for code parsing (linguist/qdoc)
designer	Build Qt Designer
distancefieldgenerator	Build Qt Distance Field Generator
linguist	Build Qt Linguist (GUI requires USE=widgets)
pixeltool	Build Qt Pixeltool
qdbus	Build the Qt D-Bus Interface (D-Bus Viewer requires USE=widgets)
qdoc	Build Qt Documentation Generator
qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports
qtattributionsscanner	Build Qt Source Code Attribution Scanner
qtdiag	Build Qt Diag
qtplugininfo	Build Qt Plugin Info
widgets	Enable QtWidgets support

qtvirtualkeyboard

handwriting	Adds handwriting recognition integration support

qtwayland

compositor	Enable support for the wayland compositor / server APIs
qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports
vulkan	Enable support for Vulkan-based server buffer integration

qtwebchannel

qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports

qtwebengine

designer	Install the QWebEngineView plugin used to add widgets in dev-qt/designer forms that display web pages.
jumbo-build	Combine source files to speed up build process.
pdfium	Build the QtPdf module based on chromium's PDFium library
qml	Build QML/QtQuick bindings and imports
system-icu	Use the system-wide dev-libs/icu instead of bundled.
widgets	Enable QtWidgets support

qtwebsockets

qml	Build QML bindings

qtwidgets

gtk	Build the GTK platform theme plugin

qtxmlpatterns

qml	Build the XmlListModel import for QtQuick (requires QtDeclarative)

dev-ruby

barby

cairo	Add support for writing images (PNG, PS, EPS and, if supported, PDF and SVG) using dev-ruby/rcairo. Not available on JRuby.
png	Add support for writing PNG images using dev-ruby/chunky_png.
prawn	Add support for writing PDF documents using dev-ruby/prawn.
qrcode	Add support for QRCode 2D codes using dev-ruby/rqrcode.
rmagick	Add support for writing images (among others PNG, GIF and JPEG) using dev-ruby/rmagick. Not available on JRuby.

faraday_middleware

mashify	Include FaradayMiddleware::Mashify
oauth	Include FaradayMiddleware::OAuth
parsexml	Include FaradayMiddleware::ParseXml
rashify	Include FaradayMiddleware::Rashify

io-event

io-uring	Enable io_uring support, and use io_uring instead of epoll

maruku

highlight	Enable source code highlighting via dev-ruby/syntax

mysql2

mariadb	Use mariadb bindings

net-ssh

chacha20	Use dev-ruby/rbnacl for chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com support
ed25519	Use dev-ruby/ed25519 for Ed25519 support

rrdtool-bindings

graph	Enable support for graphing functions

rspec-core

highlight	Enable source code highlighting via dev-ruby/coderay

rubygems

server	Install support for the rubygems server

vcr

json	Add support for casettes serialized with JSON

dev-scheme

bigloo

avahi	Enable Avahi support
gpg	Enable GPG support
libuv	Enable libuv support

gauche

mbedtls	Enable support for net-libs/mbedtls

gauche-gl

cg	Enable NVidia Cg binding

guile

debug-freelist	Include garbage collector freelist debugging code
debug-malloc	Include malloc debugging code
deprecated	Enable deprecated features
discouraged	(implied by deprecated) enable merely discouraged features
networking	Include networking interfaces
regex	Include regular expression interfaces

kawa

awt	Assume AWT is available
frontend	Build "kawa" front-end program using sys-libs/readline
jemacs	Build JEmacs
krl	Build BRL emulation and KRL
sax	Assume SAX2 is available with dev-java/sax
servlets	Build support for generating servlets with Java servletapi
swing	Assume Swing is available

mit-scheme

blowfish	Compile with blowfish encryption support

racket

chez	Build Racket on Chez (Racket CS)
futures	Enable racket/future library for fine-grained hardware parallelism
ncurses	Add ncurses support for expeditor (REPL expression editor)
places	Enable racket/place library for share-nothing parallelism and message-passing communication. Compared to futures, places are heavyweight, but they have a simpler performance model.
threads	Enable support for green threads

scm

arrays	Support for arrays, uniform-arrays and uniform-vectors.
bignums	Support for large precision integers.
cautious	SCM will always check the number of arguments to interpreted closures.
dynamic-linking	Be able to load compiled files while running.
engineering-notation	Floats to display in engineering notation (exponents always multiples of 3) instead of scientific notation.
gsubr	generalized c arguments: for arbitrary (more then 11) arguments to C functions.
inexact	Support for floating point numbers.
ioext	Commonly available I/O extensions: line I/O, file positioning, file delete and rename, and directory functions.
libscm	Build and install libscm.a and related headers
macro	C level support for hygienic and referentially transparent macros (syntax-rules macros).
regex	String regular expression matching.
unix	Support for: nice, acct, lstat, readlink, symlink, mknod and sync.

slib

gambit	Support for gambit scheme implementation
scm	Support for scm scheme implementation

dev-tcltk

expect-lite

debug	pull in packages needed for runtime interactive debugger

tcl3d

ode	Enable support for physics engine from dev-games/ode
osg	Enable support for 3D toolkit from dev-games/openscenegraph

tktreectrl

shellicon	shellicon extension

dev-tex

abntex

lyx	Install with app-office/lyx layout

biblatex

biber	Install the unicode compatible backend processor

pythontex

highlighting	Syntax highlighting using dev-python/pygments

dev-texlive

texlive-basic

luajittex	Add support for LuaJitTeX: LuaTeX based on LuaJIT which is usually faster.

dev-util

Tensile

client	Build and install tensile_client executable to run benchmarks and tune GPU GEMM

bazel

tools	Install extra bazel tools to build from sources

bitcoin-tx

knots	Build enhanced Bitcoin Knots version, rather than Bitcoin Core

bpftool

caps	Use sys-libs/libcap to enable unprivileged run support

bpftrace

fuzzing	Build bpftrace for fuzzing

buildbot

docker	Add support for worker docker command steps
irc	Add support for status delivery through an ircbot.

cargo-audit

fix	Add support for 'fix' subcommand (experimental)

catalyst

ccache	Enables ccache support
iso	Pulls in the depends for building iso images
system-bootloader	Pulls in the depends needed to setup livecd bootloader from the host system rather than using a cdtar

ccache

redis	Enable Redis backend for storage via dev-libs/hiredis
static-c++	Avoid dynamic dependency on gcc's libstdc++.

cccc

apidoc	Build software docs with doxygen/graphviz and metrics with cccc
mfc	Add patch for MFC dialect options

cmake

dap	Build debugger for CMake with Debug Adapter Protocol support via dev-cpp/cppdap

codeblocks

contrib	Build additional contrib components
fortran	Build FortranProject plugin which enables to use Code::Blocks IDE for Fortran language

cppcheck

htmlreport	install cppcheck-htmlreport

ctags

json	Enable JSON output support
xml	Enable XML parsing support
yaml	Enable YAML parsing support

cwdiff

mercurial	install hg wdiff alias for dev-vcs/mercurial

devhelp

gedit	Install plugin for app-editors/gedit

dialog

minimal	Disable library, install command-line program only

diffoscope

R	Use dev-lang/R
binutils	Use sys-devel/binutils
cpio	Use app-arch/cpio
diff	Use sys-apps/diffutils
docx	Use app-text/docx2txt
dtc	Use sys-apps/dtc
e2fsprogs	Use sys-fs/e2fsprogs
file	Use sys-apps/file
find	Use sys-apps/findutils
gettext	Use sys-devel/gettext
gpg	Use app-crypt/gnupg
haskell	Use dev-lang/ghc
hdf5	Use sci-libs/hdf5
hex	Use app-editors/vim-core
iso	Use app-cdr/cdrtools
llvm	Use sys-devel/llvm
opendocument	Use app-text/odt2txt
pascal	Use dev-lang/fpc
rpm	Use app-arch/rpm
squashfs	Use sys-fs/squashfs-tools
ssh	Use net-misc/openssh
tar	Use app-arch/tar
tcpdump	Use net-analyzer/tcpdump
zip	Use app-arch/unzip

edi

clang	Provide integration with sys-devel/clang and dev-util/bear for autocompletion, inline errors and information about compilation units.

flatpak-builder

yaml	Use libyaml for yaml support

geany

vte	Enable Terminal support (x11-libs/vte)

geany-plugins

ctags	Enable ctags plugin
debugger	Enable the debugger plugin which interfaces with sys-devel/gdb
enchant	Enable spell checking using enchant
gpg	Enable geanypg plugin which integrates GPG using app-crypt/gpgme
gtkspell	Use gtkspell for dictionary support in GeanyVC
markdown	Enable the markdown plugin
pretty-printer	Enable pretty-printer plugin
scope	Enable the scope plugin which is a graphical GDB front-end
soup	Enable updatechecker and geniuspaste plugins which require net-libs/libsoup
workbench	Enable workbench plugin

glade

gjs	Build catalog support for dev-libs/gjs widgets.
webkit	Build catalog support for net-libs/webkit-gtk:4 widgets.

global

vim	Integrate the GNU GLOBAL source code tag system with Vim

gnome-builder

clang	Provide integration with sys-devel/clang for best possible C/C++ autocompletion, semantic highlighting, symbol resolving, and diagnostics support
d-spy	Provide D-Bus debugging functionality via dev-util/d-spy
flatpak	Enable support for flatpak applications using sys-apps/flatpak
git	Provide support for the Git version control system via dev-libs/libgit2-glib (such as setup of Git for New Project, direct cloning for Open Project and changed lines indicators in the editor gutter)
sysprof	Provide an integrated profiler via dev-util/sysprof

google-perftools

debug	Build a set of libraries with debug support (so-called debugalloc). These are available by default but are not needed unless you're actually developing using tcmalloc.
largepages	Use (experimental) larger pages for tcmalloc, this increases memory usage, but should speed up the allocation/free operations.
largepages64k	Use (experimental) 64K pages for tcmalloc, this increases memory usage, but should speed up the allocation/free operations.
minimal	Only build the tcmalloc_minimal library, ignoring the heap checker and the profilers.
optimisememory	To build libtcmalloc with smaller internal caches.

heaptrack

gui	Install Qt5-based analyzer tool

hfstospell

clang	Use different logic in ebuild when clang is used

intel-graphics-compiler

vc	Enable VectorCompiler for a better performance.

intel-graphics-system-controller

cli	Build CLI tools for flashing manually a firmware upgrade.

kcov

binutils	Use sys-libs/binutils-libs for --verify support

kdevelop

gdbui	Enable GUI for attaching GDB to a running process
hex	Enable hex editor plugin via app-editors/okteta
qmake	Enable support for QMake build system
reviewboard	Enable reviewboard support

kernelshark

custom-optimization	Build with user-specified compiler optimizations (-Os, -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3) from CFLAGS

kup

gitolite	Enable support for dev-vcs/gitolite in kup-server

libabigail

btf	Handle reading kernel debug files in BTF format via dev-libs/libbpf

librnp

botan	Use Botan crypto backend instead of OpenSSL

ltrace

elfutils	Use libdwfl from sys-libs/libunwind for frame unwinding support
unwind	Use sys-libs/libunwind for frame unwinding support

lttng-tools

ust	Support LTTng-UST (Userspace Tracing)

lttng-ust

numa	Enable numa support

massif-visualizer

callgraph	Enable detailed snapshot analysis using media-gfx/kgraphviewer

mingw64-runtime

default-ucrt	Use ucrt instead of msvcrt-os as the default crt (WARNING: incompatible with each others and also for building Wine with USE=mingw, pick one from the start and keep it)
idl	Install idl files
libraries	Build extra libraries: mangle, pseh, winpthreads
tools	Build extra tools: gendef, genidl, widl

muon

archive	Enable extracting wraps using app-arch/libarchive.
libpkgconf	Enable looking up packages via dev-util/pkgconf.

nvidia-cuda-toolkit

debugger	Install the CUDA debugger
nsight	Install profiling and optimizing tools (nsight-compute, nsight-systems)
profiler	Install the NVIDIA CUDA profiler (nvprof) and the related libraries
rdma	Enable infiniband support via sys-cluster/rdma-core
sanitizer	Install compute-sanitizer tool
vis-profiler	Install the NVIDIA CUDA visual profiler (nvvp)

oprofile

apidoc	Provide doxygen generated API docs.

ostree

archive	Use libarchive
dracut	Install dracut module
gpg	Enable GPG support
grub	Enable grub configuration generator
http2	Use http2
httpd	Enable ostree trivial-httpd entrypoint
libmount	Use libmount
sodium	Use libsodium for ed25519
soup	Use libsoup for networking

perf

babeltrace	Enable dev-util/babeltrace support
bpf	Enable support for eBPF features with dev-libs/libbpf
clang	Enable builtin clang and LLVM support
doc	Build documentation and man pages. With this USE flag disabled, the --help parameter for perf and its sub-tools will not be available. This is optional because it depends on a few documentation handling tools that are not always welcome on user systems.
libpfm	Enable dev-libs/libpfm support
libtraceevent	Enable dev-libs/libtraceevent support
libtracefs	Enable dev-libs/libtracefs support
numa	Enable NUMA support
perl	Add support for Perl as a scripting language for perf tools.
systemtap	Add support to define SDT event in perf tools.
unwind	Use sys-libs/libunwind for frame unwinding support.

plan9port

freefonts	Don't install BigelowHolmes fonts

poke

nbd	Enable poking at networked block devices via sys-libs/libnbd.
pvm-profiling	Enable profiling in the PVM

pycharm-community

bundled-jdk	Use bundled jdk

pycharm-professional

bundled-jdk	Use bundled jdk

ropper

z3	Enable Z3 contraint solver support

scanmem

gui	Enable the GameConqueror GUI

sccache

azure	Enable Azure Blob Storage support
dist-client	Enables distributed support in the sccache client
dist-server	Enables the sccache-dist binary
gcs	Enable Google Cloud Storage support
redis	Enable Redis support
s3	Enable full Amazon S3 support
simple-s3	Enable minimal Amazon S3 support

schroot

btrfs	Enable support for chroots using btrfs snapshots
dchroot	Enables the building of a wrapper named "dchroot", replacing sys-apps/dchroot
lvm	Enable support for chroots using LVM snapshots
zfs	Enable support for chroots using ZFS shapshots/clones

sdl-jstest

sdl	Enable media-libs/libsdl2 based input test
sdl1	Enable media-libs/libsdl based input test

spirv-llvm-translator

tools	Install the command-line translator llvm-spirv

strace

aio	Enable dev-libs/libaio support for tracing Asynchronous I/O operations
elfutils	Enable stack backtraces (-k flag) via dev-libs/elfutils
unwind	Enable stack backtraces (-k flag) via sys-libs/libunwind

sysdig

modules	Build kernel modules needed for tracing local events. Disable this only if you intend to use sysdig purely to work with dumpfiles.

sysprof

unwind	Use sys-libs/libunwind to unwind the stack

systemtap

libvirt	Support probing of libvirt domains.

trace-cmd

udis86	Enable support for dev-libs/udis86 disassembler library

uftrace

capstone	Use capstone to provide dynamic tracing without recompilation

vulkan-tools

cube	Build the cube/cubepp demos

watchman

python	Install pywatchman bindings and the watchman-{wait,make} utils

dev-vcs

cvs

server	Enable server support

darcs

terminfo	Use the terminfo package for enhanced console support.
threaded	Use threading and SMP support.

fossil

fusefs	Enable the Fuse Filesystem
json	Enable the JSON API of Fossil's wiki
system-sqlite	Use the system SQLite instead of the bundled one
tcl-private-stubs	Enable Tcl integration via private stubs mechanism
tcl-stubs	Enable Tcl integration via stubs library mechanism
th1-docs	Enable TH1 for embedded documentation pages
th1-hooks	Enable TH1 hooks for commands and web pages

git

blksha1	Use the new optimized SHA1 implementation
cgi	Install gitweb too
curl	Support fetching and pushing (requires webdav too) over http:// and https:// protocols
gpg	Pull in gnupg for signing -- without gnupg, attempts at signing will fail at runtime!
highlight	GitWeb support for app-text/highlight
mediawiki	Support pulling and pushing from MediaWiki
perforce	Add support for Perforce version control system (requires manual installation of Perforce client)
safe-directory	Respect the safe.directory setting
subversion	Include git-svn for dev-vcs/subversion support
tk	Include the 'gitk' and 'git gui' tools
webdav	Adds support for push'ing to HTTP/HTTPS repositories via DAV

git-annex

assistant	Enable git-annex assistant and watch command
benchmark	Enable benchmarking
dbus	Enable dbus support
gitlfs	Build with git-lfs library (rather than vendored copy)
magicmime	Use libmagic to determine file MIME types
pairing	Enable pairing
torrentparser	Use haskell torrent library to parse torrent files
webapp	Enable git-annex webapp

git-delete-merged-branches

full-name-executable	Install executable /usr/bin/git-delete-merged-branches that is in conflict with dev-vcs/git-extras

gitg

glade	Install a glade catalog file
python	Install Python bindings for those plugins requiring it.

gitolite

contrib	Install user-contributed files
tools	Install tools to e.g. convert a Gitosis config to gitolite or one to check if your setup is gitolite >= 3.x compatible

gitolite-gentoo

tools	Install tools to e.g. convert a Gitosis config to gitolite or one to check if your setup is gitolite >= 3.x compatible

mercurial

chg	Support Mercurial command server client
gpg	Support signing with GnuPG.
rust	Use Rust extensions.
tk	Install dev-lang/tk for hgk script.

subversion

extras	Install extra scripts (examples, tools, hooks)
kwallet	Enable encrypted storage of passwords with kde-frameworks/kwallet
plaintext-password-storage	Enable on-disk caching of plaintext passwords and passphrases. (Enabling this functionality will not force Subversion to store passwords in plaintext, but does permit users to explicitly allow that behavior via runtime configuration.)

games-action

beathazardultra

bundled-libs	Use the upstream provided bundled libraries.

descent1-freedata

l10n_de	Provides German translations for the game's briefings, robot descriptions, and outro of the original campaign
opl3-musicpack	Include alternate version of the game's music, recorded with the Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 soundchip
sc55-musicpack	Include alternate version of the game's music, recorded with the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 MIDI module
textures	Include high resolution (640x480) backgrounds, briefing images and fonts (Descent 1)

descent2-freedata

l10n_de	Provides German translations for the game's briefings, robot descriptions, and outro of the original campaign
opl3-musicpack	Include alternate version of the game's music, recorded with the Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 soundchip
sc55-musicpack	Include alternate version of the game's music, recorded with the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 MIDI module

dxx-rebirth

d1x	Install Descent 1 resources and executable
d2x	Install Descent 2 resources and executable
data	Ensure some game levels are present; if the full game's level data is not already installed then install the playable demo data (i.e. shareware levels)
debug	Enable various debugging code paths and sanity checks, not just output. Some of these checks date back to the retail build, and choke on some custom levels because the game was never coded to sufficiently distrust inputs
editor	Enable level editor support
l10n_de	Provides German translations for the game's briefings, robot descriptions, and outro of the original campaign
midi	Enforce that SDL-mixer is used and has midi support
music	Enable music support
opl3-musicpack	Include alternate version of the game's music, recorded with the Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 soundchip
sc55-musicpack	Include alternate version of the game's music, recorded with the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 MIDI module
sdl2	Use libSDL2, SDL2-mixer instead of libSDL-1* and SDL-mixer-1*
tracker	Enable support for the PHP-based multiplayer game tracker

hotline-miami

bundled-libs	Use bundled libraries.
launcher	Install qt launcher

minetest

client	Build Minetest client
leveldb	Enable LevelDB backend
prometheus	Enable prometheus client support
redis	Enable redis backend via dev-libs/hiredis
server	Build Minetest server
spatial	Enable SpatialIndex AreaStore backend

prismlauncher

lto	Enable link-time optimization
qt6	Build with Qt6 support instead of the default Qt5

supermariowar

server	Compile and install Super Mario War server files

supertuxkart

nettle	Use dev-libs/nettle crypto backend
recorder	Enable recording with media-libs/libopenglrecorder
sqlite	Record IP bans, statistics in server mode with dev-db/sqlite
wiimote	Support for wiimote input devices

swordandsworcery

bundled-libs	Use the upstream provided bundled libraries.

trine

launcher	Install GTK+ launcher

trine-enchanted-edition

launcher	Install GTK+ launcher

trine2

launcher	Install GTK+ launcher

games-arcade

bomns

editor	enables building the level editor

burgerspace

network	Enable client-server support

commandergenius

downloader	Allows some Keen games to be downloaded from the menu

jazz2

server	Build the multiplayer game server

jazz2-data

cc	Install The Christmas Chronicles additional data
demo	Use the free demo data instead of the full retail game data

lbreakout2

themes	Install additional themes

moleinvasion

music	Download and install the music files

oshu

osu-skin	Include more complete osu-skin (other is minimal)

performous

midi	Enable MIDI I/O support
songs	Install a few demo songs
webcam	Enable Webcam support

tuxanci

physfs	Use dev-games/physfs instead of dev-libs/libzip to load compressed data

games-board

cockatrice

client	Build with client
oracle	Build with oracle
server	Compile server support

crafty

no-opts	Don't try to enable crazy CFLAG options

freedoko

backgrounds	Install additional background images
gnomecards	Install the gnome-games card set
kdecards	Install the KDE card set
openclipartcards	Install the openclipartcards card set
pysolcards	Install the PySol card set
xskatcards	Install the XSkat card set

pasang-emas

extras	Install some extra themes

pioneers

help	Enable gnome ingame help via scrollkeeper

pysolfc

extra-cardsets	Install extra cardsets
sound	Enable sound support using dev-python/pygame

scid

photos	Install collection of player photos (large)
scripts	Install additional python and tcl utility scripts

stockfish

general-32	Generic unoptimized 32-bits build
general-64	Generic unoptimized 64-bits build
optimize	Enable upstream -O3 optimizations (default enabled)

tablebase-syzygy

6-pieces	Install tablebases for 6 pieces (huge!)

xboard

default-font	Install the default font that xboard uses
zippy	Enable experimental zippy client

games-emulation

atari800

encode-mp3	Support recording sound in MP3 format

desmume

gdb	Enable support for the remote GDB stub
openal	Use media-libs/openal for microphone input
wifi	Enable support for Wi-Fi (experimental and discouraged)

dolphin

discord-presence	Enables Discord Rich Presence, show the current game on Discord
evdev	Enable evdev input support
log	Increase logging output
mgba	Enables GBA controllers emulation using libmgba.

dosbox

core-inline	Enable memory-increasing inlines for better performance but requiring more build time
glide	Enable unofficial Glide emulation via media-libs/openglide

dosbox-staging

dynrec	Use recompiling cpu core instead of dynamic x86/x64 specific cpu core
fluidsynth	use media-sound/fluidsynth for MIDI emulation
mt-32	use media-libs/munt-mt32emu for MT-32 emulation
network	Enable networking features (modem, ipx)
screenshot	Enable screenshots of rendered output using media-libs/sdl2-image
slirp	Enable Ethernet emulation using net-libs/libslirp

fceux

archive	Use app-arch/libarchive for 7zip support
ffmpeg	Use media-video/ffmpeg for video recording
x265	Use media-libs/x265 for video recording (HEVC)

generator

sdlaudio	Enable SDL Audio

hatari

capsimage	Use dev-libs/spsdeclib to read .IPF, .RAW, and .CTR disk images
portmidi	Use media-libs/portmidi as an alternative MIDI backend

higan

gtk	Use GTK3 (Qt5 if disabled) user interface backend

jgemu

bsnes	Install bsnes for Super Nintendo
cega	Install Cega for SG-1000, Sega Master System and Game Gear
gambatte	Install Gambatte for Game Boy and Game Boy Color
geolith	Install Geolith for Neo Geo AES/MVS
jollycv	Install JollyCV for ColecoVision
mednafen	Install Mednafen for Atari Lynx, Nintendo Virtual Boy, NEC PC Engine, NEC SuperGrafx, Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo, Neo Geo Pocket and WonderSwan
melonds	Install MelonDS for Nintendo DS
mgba	Install mGBA for Game Boy Advance
nestopia	Install Nestopia for Nintendo Entertainment System
prosystem	Install ProSystem for Atari 7800
sameboy	Install SameBoy for Game Boy and Game Boy Color
vecx	Install Vecx for Vectrex

m64py

7z	Ensure support for .7z archives.
rar	Ensure support for .rar archives.

mgba

discord	Enable Discord RPC support
elf	Enable the use of elf utils via dev-libs/elfutils
gles2	Build OpenGL ES 2.x RenderSystem
gles3	Build OpenGL ES 3.x RenderSystem
libretro	Build libretro port

mupen64plus

audio-sdl	Enable SDL audio plugin.
input-sdl	Enable SDL input plugin.
rsp-hle	Enable HLE RSP plugin.
ui-console	Enable default console UI.
ui-m64py	Enable PyQt5 UI using games-emulation/m64py.
video-glide64mk2	Enable Glide64mk2 video plugin.
video-rice	Enable Rice video plugin.

mupen64plus-core

debugger	Build the debugger
new-dynarec	Enable new experimental dynamic recompiler implementation (only for x86 and arm)
opencv	Support video capture via media-libs/opencv
osd	Overlay emulator messages using on-screen-display

mupen64plus-video-glide64mk2

hires	Support hi-resolution textures (requires dev-libs/boost)

pcsx2

sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend

ppsspp

discord	Enable interfacing with a locally running Discord desktop client

snes9x

libretro	Build libretro port
netplay	Enable playing ROMs over the network (not recommended)

vbam

link	Enable GBA linking functionality

games-engines

devilutionx

sodium	Enable network packet encryption using dev-libs/libsodium
zerotier	Enable ZeroTier for online public games

exult

fluidsynth	Compile with support for FluidSynth
tools	Enable tools, usercode compiler and mods support

fheroes2

tools	Install development tools like 82m2wav and xmi2midi.

frobtads

tads2compiler	Build TADS2 compiler
tads3compiler	Build TADS3 compiler

love

gme	Use media-libs/game-music-emu to support additional music formats

odamex

client	Build client target
hidpi	Use bundled FLTK 1.4, which has better support for HiDPI screens
master	Build master server target (advertises odamex server list)
odalaunch	Build the wxWidgets based launcher
portmidi	Enable PortMidi support
server	Build server target

openmw

devtools	Install development tools like bsatool, esmtool and opencs.
osg-fork	Use OpenSceneGraph forked by OpenMW instead of upstream OSG.

scummvm

fluidsynth	compile with support for fluidsynth
fribidi	Support for right-to-left languages via dev-libs/fribidi
glew	enable support for OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (media-libs/glew)
mpeg2	enable mpeg2 codec for cutscenes
net	enable cloud support via media-libs/sdl2-net
sndio	Enable support for MIDI music using media-sound/sndio
speech	enable text-to-speech support through app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher
unsupported	enable unsupported and/or broken game engines (you're on your own)

solarus

doc	Install doxygen developer documentation.

games-fps

alienarena

vidmode	Link against x11-libs/libXxf86vm. Required for full-screen support.

chocolate-doom

midi	basic support for MIDI files

darkplaces

cdsound	Enables using CD audio in the engine
demo	Uses the demo data from quake1 (quake1-demodata)
lights	Install and setup the updated light maps
textures	Install and setup the updated textures

doomsday

demo	Install launcher dor doom1.wad from games-fps/doom-data
display-mode	Include the ability to set the display mode
fluidsynth	Build the FluidSynth sound driver
freedoom	Install launcher for doom1.wad from games-fps/freedoom
tools	Build additional tools such as doomsday-shell, md2tool and texc

duke3d-data

demo	Extract data files from the shareware version.
gog	Extract data files from the GOG.com version.

eduke32

duke3d	Install the Duke Nukem 3D data files, provided by games-fps/duke3d-data.
fluidsynth	Install media-libs/sdl2-mixer with fluidsynth support.
hrp	Install the Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack.
offensive	Install the Duke Nukem 3D XXX Pack.
opl	Install the Duke Nukem 3D OPL music files.
psx	Install the Duke Nukem 3D PSX high resolution voice files.
sc-55	Install the Duke Nukem 3D Roland SC-55 music files.
sdk	Install the SDK files.
server	Enable support for multiplayer.
tools	Install the support tools for mapster32.
voidsw	Enable support for Shadow Warrior (Classic) through VoidSW.
voxels	Install the Duke Nukem 3D Voxels Pack.
vpx	Enable support for media-libs/libvpx.
xmp	Enable support for media-libs/exempi.

gzdoom

gles2	Enable GLES2 backend
non-free	Enable non-free components
swr	Enable software renderer

nexuiz

maps	Install the community map pack

prboom-plus

dumb	Enable support for various tracker-style music formats via media-libs/dumb
fluidsynth	Enable support for MIDI via media-sound/fluidsynth
net	Enable support for network play
portmidi	Enable support for MIDI via media-libs/portmidi
sdl2-image	Enable support for high-resolution texture support via media-libs/sdl2-image
sdl2-mixer	Enable support for MIDI via media-libs/sdl2-mixer
server	Build PrBoom-Plus server

quake2-icculus

demo	Install the demo files (quake2-demodata) and configure for use
qmax	Build the pretty version (quake max)
rogue	Build support for the 'Ground Zero' Mission Pack (rogue)
xatrix	Build support for the 'The Reckoning' Mission Pack (xatrix)

quakeforge

client	Build Normal and QuakeWorld clients alongside the servers
wildmidi	Use media-sound/wildmidi for midi support

redeclipse

dedicated	Install only as a dedicated game server

rott

demo	Install the shareware version

sauerbraten

server	Compile server support

turtlearena

mumble	Adds player-location (positional audio) support to VoIP
server	Build server target
voice	Adds VoIP support

urbanterror

altgamma	Alternative way for gamma setting with modesetting driver
client	Build binary for client (includes code for non-dedicated server)
mumble	Use Mumble for ingame VoIP (experimental)
server	Build binary for dedicated server
skeetshootmod	Build support for skeetshoot mod for specific maps
voip	Use ioq3 ingame VoIP (experimental)

worldofpadman

maps	Install extra maps (PadPack)

xonotic

ode	Enable support for physics engine from dev-games/ode

yamagi-quake2

client	Build client
ctf	Build support for the 'Capture The Flag' addon
gles	Build GLES3 renderer
rogue	Build support for the 'Ground Zero' Mission Pack
softrender	Build software renderer
vulkan	Build experimental Vulkan renderer
xatrix	Build support for the 'The Reckoning' Mission Pack

games-kids

gcompris

kiosk	Enable kiosk mode by default (for use by small children or on a self-service host machine)

games-misc

ponysay

fish-completion	Enable fish completion support
non-free	Install non-free ponies (i.e. from the MLP franchise)

xcowsay

fortune	Enable support for fortune cookies via games-misc/fortune-mod

games-mud

tf

atcp	enable ATCP support.
gmcp	enable GMCP support.
option102	enable telnet option 102 support.

games-puzzle

gnome-tetravex

cli	Build the gnome-tetravex-cli command-line interface
gui	Build the gnome-tetravex graphical Gtk user interface

nightsky

bundled-libs	Use the upstream provided bundled libraries.

pingus

music	Enable playing of background music

tiny-and-big

bundled-libs	Use the upstream provided bundled libraries.

world-of-goo-gog

bundled-libs	Use bundled libs

world-of-goo-hb

bundled-libs	Use bundled libs

games-roguelike

FTL

bundled-libs	Use bundled libraries.

angband

sound	Enable and install sounds

stone-soup

advpng	Use alternate png optimization.
ncurses	Enable for console (uses ncurses) based build. (can be enabled on top of tiles)
tiles	Enable for graphical (tiled) build. (can be enabled on top of ncurses)

tomenet

client	Compile client
server	Compile server

games-rpg

daimonin-client

music	Install extra music

deponia-doomsday

bonus	Install the bonus content (Art Book, Concept Art, Soundtrack)

drascula

sound	Install optional audio files

dreamweb

doc	High-resolution scans of the written material in the original UK game box

freedroidrpg

devtools	Compile the additional dev tools
profile	Enable the integration of the ingame real-time profiler

hatoful-boyfriend

gui	Install the GUI for configuring screen resolution and input

hatoful-boyfriend-holiday-star

gui	Install the GUI for configuring screen resolution and input

kqlives

cheats	Enable cheating mode

manaplus

mumble	Enable support for voice chat
pugixml	Use dev-libs/pugixml for XML parsing isntead of dev-libs/libxml2
sdl2	Use libsdl2 instead of libsdl

sumwars

tools	Builds editor tools

the-longest-journey

hd	Install high definition backgrounds and sprites
hd-fmv	Install upscaled full motion videos

to-the-moon

bundled-libs	Use bundled libraries

games-simulation

corsix-th

midi	Adds support for background MIDI music via SDL_mixer
tools	Build tools for decoding RNC files

flightgear

dbus	Enable screensaver DBus interaction
gdal	Enable alternative terrain engine based on pagedLOD using sci-libs/gdal
qt5	Build Qt5 launcher application
udev	Enable event-based Input devices through virtual/udev
utils	Build various utilities (fgpanel, fgviewer among others)

openrct2

scripting	Enable the dev-lang/duktape scripting engine for executing user scripts.

openttd

allegro	Add support for Allegro
dedicated	Build only the openttd server, and not the client.
fluidsynth	Compile with support for FluidSynth
lzo	Enables LZO compression for savegames. This is only needed to load extremely old savegames. (versions before 0.2)
openmedia	Enables the free open media sets: OpenGFX, OpenSFX, OpenMSX, removing the requirement for proprietary TTD assets to play OpenTTD.

simutrans

minimal	Don't install any PakSets (scenario data)

simutrans-paksets

128	Install higher resolution scenario data (128 px graphics)
comic192	Install comic-like scenario data (192 px graphics)
cs128	Install Czech-Slovak scenario data (128 px graphics)
excentrique48	Install eccentric scenario data (48 px graphics)
german128	Install German scenario data (128 px graphics)
nippon64	Install Nippon scenario data (64 px graphics)

train-valley

gui	Install the GUI for configuring screen resolution and input

games-sports

speed-dreams

osggraph	Enable the new work-in-progress 3D engine using dev-games/openscenegraph
webstats	Enable support for sending racing statistics to a web server (experimental)

xmoto

double-precision	more precise calculations at the expense of speed

games-strategy

0ad

editor	Include Atlas scenario editor projects
lobby	Enable the use of net-libs/gloox and the multiplayer lobby
nvtt	Support for some uncompressed data formats (might be needed for some mods)

colobot

devbuild	TODO
tools	Build tools

colobot-data

music	Enable music support

defcon-demo

system-libs	Use system libraries instead of the ones included in the upstream distribution.

freeciv

aimodules	Support for dynamically loadable AI modules (server-side)
auth	Add authentication capability via mysql, postgres, or sqlite3
gtk3	Build the gtk3 client
gtk4	Build the gtk4 client
json	Add support for JSON via dev-libs/jansson
mapimg	Additional mag image toolkit via media-gfx/imagemagick
modpack	Build the freeciv-modpack-program to download/install mods
rule-editor	Build ruleset editor
server	Enable server support. Disabling this will also make it impossible to start local games.
sound	Add support for sound provided by media-libs/sdl-mixer
system-lua	Use dev-lang/lua instead of the bundled liblua
web-server	Build the freeciv-web server in place of the freeciv server

freeorion

client	Build game client

freesynd

devtools	Build development tools

hedgewars

server	Enable local server

ja2-stracciatella

editor	Adds necessary file to run the editor
ru-gold	Support for russian gold ja2 version

megaglest

editor	Build map editor
fribidi	Enable FriBIDi support
model-viewer	Build model viewer
streflop	Use the library streflop. Out of synchs may occur if not enabled.
tools	Build model import/export tools
unicode	Use unicode strings for wxwidgets
wxuniversal	Use the wxUniversal port which implements the various GUI controls by drawing them itself

satellite-reign

gui	Install the GUI for configuring screen resolution and input

ufoai

client	Build the main game client
server	Build the dedicated server

uqm

music	download and install original 3DO music files
remix	download and install remixed music files (large)
voice	download and install voice files (large)

wargus

bne	Support extracting data from the Battle.net Edition

warzone2100

discord	Enable Discord presence/join integration

wesnoth

server	Enable compilation of server

games-util

basis_universal

opencl	Enable OpenCL support

gslist

web	Enable the web interface

lgogdownloader

gui	Enable GUI login support for passing reCAPTCHA

slade

fluidsynth	Enable MIDI software synthesis using media-sound/fluidsynth

wit

fuse	Enable image mount support via fuse

gnome-base

gdm

bluetooth-sound	Allow loading of bluetooth sound modules. This may be necessary for accessibility screen readers, but may cause bluetooth sound issues for users logging in.
fprint	Enables experimental fingerprint authentication using sys-auth/fprintd
plymouth	Enable support for smooth transition from sys-boot/plymouth

gnome

classic	Install gnome-extra/gnome-shell-extensions for the Gnome Shell Classic mode
extras	Install additional GNOME applications

gnome-applets

tracker	Build the tracker search bar applet

gnome-control-center

gnome-online-accounts	Enable configuration panel for net-libs/gnome-online-accounts accounts
ibus	Enable support for enhanced input methods through app-i18n/ibus

gnome-extra-apps

games	Install Gnome Games
share	Install the gnome-extra/gnome-user-share personal file sharing tool
shotwell	Install the media-gfx/shotwell photo manager
tracker	Install the app-misc/tracker indexer and the GNOME packages that require it

gnome-keyring

ssh-agent	Use GNOME Keyring to unlock SSH keys. Recommended unless you are using ECDSA or Ed25519 keys.

gnome-light

gnome-shell	Install gnome-base/gnome-shell and x11-wm/mutter for the standard GNOME 3 desktop mode

gnome-session

elogind	Support sys-auth/elogind for session tracking

gnome-settings-daemon

elogind	Rely on sys-auth/elogind as runtime logind provider
modemmanager	Enable WWAN support via net-misc/modemmanager
systemd	Rely on sys-apps/systemd as runtime logind provider

gnome-shell

elogind	Use sys-auth/elogind for session tracking and suspend support.
ibus	Enable support for enhanced input methods through app-i18n/ibus
pipewire	Use pipewire to enable the camera monitor

gvfs

afp	Enables support for accessing AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) network shares
archive	Enables support for accessing files in archives transparently via app-arch/libarchive
bluray	Enable playback of Blu-ray filesystems using media-libs/libbluray
elogind	Use sys-auth/elogind for session tracking.
fuse	Enables fuse mount points in $HOME/.gvfs for legacy application access
gnome-online-accounts	Enable configuration panel for net-libs/gnome-online-accounts accounts
google	Enables support for accessing Google accounts via dev-libs/libgdata
http	Enable the HTTP/DAV backend using net-libs/libsoup
nfs	Enable NFS client support via net-fs/libnfs.
udev	Enable udev base replacement code for cdda feature

libgnomecanvas

glade	Enable glade support

librsvg

tools	Build svg viewer tool

nautilus

cloudproviders	Enable the cloudproviders support
gstreamer	Enable the Audio/Video file properties page
previewer	Use gnome-extra/sushi to preview files from the file mananger
sendto	Enable the nautilus-sendto extension to send files to various locations/devices

gnome-extra

cinnamon-control-center

gnome-online-accounts	Enable configuration panel for net-libs/gnome-online-accounts accounts
modemmanager	Enable support for mobile broadband devices using net-misc/modemmanager

cjs

sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture

eiciel

nautilus	Build gnome-base/nautilus extension

evolution-data-server

berkdb	sys-libs/db support needed to migrate old (pre-3.13 evolution versions) addressbook data
gnome-online-accounts	Enable net-libs/gnome-online-accounts based Google authentication support
oauth	Enable internal OAuth2 authentication support for Google and Outlook.com. If gnome-online-accounts is enabled and used, this is not necessary, but both can be supported at the same time with different setup at runtime
weather	Enable optional weather calendar support

gnome-commander

gsf	Add metadata support for OLE, OLE2 and ODF
pdf	Add metadata support for PDF
taglib	Add metadata support for ID3, Vorbis, FLAC and APE

gnome-contacts

gnome-online-accounts	Enable net-libs/gnome-online-accounts based Google authentication support

gnome-network-displays

firewalld	Install firewalld zones

gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect

nautilus	Install Nautilus extension for sending files via GSConnect

gnome-software

firmware	Enable firmware update support through sys-apps/fwupd
flatpak	Enable support for flatpak applications using sys-apps/flatpak
sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture

gnome-system-monitor

systemd	Display sys-apps/systemd metadata, e.g. unit names, for running processes

libgda

canvas	Enable support for x11-libs/goocanvas
http	Enable embedded net-libs/libsoup based server
json	Enable support for JSON format
mdb	Enable support for Microsoft Access database using app-office/mdbtools
sourceview	Enable support for x11-libs/gtksourceview

libgsf

gtk	Enable use of gdk in thumbnailer

nemo

tracker	Add support for app-misc/tracker search

nm-applet

modemmanager	Enable support for mobile broadband devices using net-misc/modemmanager
teamd	Enable teamd configuration editor

gnustep-apps

gemas

projectcenter	Build and install plugin for gnustep-apps/projectcenter

gworkspace

gwmetadata	Enable the metadata indexing and searching system

sogo

activesync	Build the ActiveSync support code
sodium	Enable support for Argon2 password schemes using dev-libs/libsodium

gnustep-base

gnustep-back-art

xim	Enable X11 XiM input method

gnustep-back-cairo

xim	Enable X11 XiM input method

gnustep-back-xlib

xim	Enable X11 XiM input method

gnustep-gui

speech	Audio support using app-accessibility/flite

gnustep-make

libobjc2	Enables use of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (gnustep-base/libobjc2) with non-fragile ABI and sys-devel/clang compiler
native-exceptions	Enables use of the native Objective-C exception support (@try/@catch/@finally) built-in objective-c exceptions with compilers that support it

libobjc2

boehm-gc	Enable Hans Boehm's garbage collector (dev-libs/boehm-gc). Not recommended by upstream

gui-apps

foot

grapheme-clustering	Enable grapheme clustering support

grim

jpeg	Enable JPEG support.

gtkgreet

layershell	Enable layer shell support

kanshi

varlink	Enable remote control with varlink

mako

icons	Enable support for icons

swaybg

gdk-pixbuf	Support image types other than PNG

swayidle

elogind	Enable support for rootless session via elogind

swaylock

gdk-pixbuf	Enable additional image format support via the x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf library

waybar

evdev	Enable libevdev support for evdev related features
experimental	Enable experimental features, such as Bluetooth battery reporting
libinput	Enable libinput support for libinput related features
logind	Enable support for logind (bluetooth and idle inhibit)
mpd	Enable support for the Music Player Daemon
mpris	Enable support for mpris
network	Enable libnl support for network related features
pipewire	Enable support for pipewire
popups	Enable popup support with gtk-layer-shell
pulseaudio	Enable support for volume control via PulseAudio
sndio	Enable support for volume control via sndio
tray	Enable support for tray
wifi	Enable support for wifi/rfkill

waypipe

dmabuf	Use DMABUFs for data exchange and hardware decoding
ffmpeg	Link with ffmpeg to allow buffer displays using video streams
systemtap	Enable SystemTAP/DTrace tracing

wayvnc

gbm	enable GPU-side screencopy (experimental)
tracing	Trace kernel and memory calls

gui-libs

gtk

broadway	Enable the GDK Broadway backend.
cloudproviders	Enable GtkPlacesSidebar to access cloud services
colord	Use x11-misc/colord for color management in printing
sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture

gtksourceview

sysprof	Enable profiling data capture support using dev-util/sysprof-capture

libhandy

glade	Install module and catalog for dev-util/glade

neatvnc

examples	Build and install examples
gbm	Enable support for the Generic Buffer Manager (gbm)
h264	Enable fast encodings
jpeg	Enable H.264 encoding
tracing	Trace kernel and memory calls

vte

icu	Enable legacy charset support using dev-libs/icu
systemd	Support moving terminal child processes to their own systemd user scopes to avoid terminal getting killed due to child causing OOM

vte-common

systemd	Support moving terminal child processes to their own systemd user scopes to avoid terminal getting killed due to child causing OOM

wlroots

X	Enable support for X11 applications (XWayland)
drm	Enable Direct Rendering Management
libinput	Enable support for input devices via dev-libs/libinput
liftoff	Enable support for libliftoff KMS plane backend
session	Enable session support (is required for DRM and libinput)
tinywl	Install the minimal wayland client, tinywl
x11-backend	Enable support for handling input/output devices through x11-libs/libxcb
xcb-errors	Better error reporting when using xwayland

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

elogind	Enable support for rootless session via elogind

gui-wm

gamescope

pipewire	Enable screen capture via PipeWire
wsi-layer	Enable the WSI layer (required for HDR)

hikari

X	Enable support for X11 applications (XWayland)

hyprland

legacy-renderer	Enable legacy renderer

sway

X	Enable support for X11 applications (XWayland)
grimshot	Install 'grimshot': script for taking screenshots
swaybar	Install 'swaybar': sway's status bar component
swaynag	Install 'swaynag': shows a message with buttons
tray	Enable support for StatusNotifierItem tray specification
wallpapers	Install sway's default wallpaper image

wayfire

gles	use libglvnd to do animations more efficiently
system-wfconfig	use the system-wide wf-config, else build it as a submodule. DO NOT DISABLE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
system-wlroots	use the system wide wlroots, else build it as a submodule. DO NOT DISABLE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

kde-apps

akonadi

designer	Install plugin for dev-qt/designer
kaccounts	Enable support for system-wide defined KAccounts
tools	Install tools for developers and testing

akregator

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

analitza

eigen	Enable dev-cpp/eigen mathematical templates support

ark

zip	Enable ZIP archive support via dev-libs/libzip

cantor

R	Enable dev-lang/R backend support
analitza	Enable kde-apps/analitza backend support
julia	Enable dev-lang/julia backend support
qalculate	Enable sci-libs/libqalculate backend support

dolphin

activities	Track which folders are frequently accessed on a Plasma desktop

gwenview

activities	Enable kactivities support
fits	Enable support for NASA's sci-libs/cfitsio library
mpris	Enable support for MPRIS2 interface, requiring dev-qt/qtdbus as dependency.
share	Enable support for a share menu using kde-frameworks/purpose

k3b

webengine	Use dev-qt/qtwebengine for fancy k3bdiskinfoview

kaccounts-providers

webengine	Enable Nextcloud KAccounts plugin using dev-qt/qtwebengine

kalarm

pim	Enable birthday import, email functions etc. using kde-apps/akonadi
speech	Enable text-to-speech support

kalzium

editor	Enable the embedded molecule editor/viewer
solver	Enable the equation solver

kanagram

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

kate-addons

filebrowser	Enable File System browser tool view
lspclient	Enable LSP (Language Server Protocol) client plugin
projects	Enable Project plugin for executing queries on SQL DBs
snippets	Enable Snippets Tool View plugin to manage or download code snippets
sql	Enable SQL plugin for executing queries on SQL DBs

kate-lib

activities	Enable Plasma Activities support via kde-frameworks/kactivities

kde-apps-meta

accessibility	Pull in kde-apps/kdeaccessibility-meta packages
admin	Pull in kde-apps/kdeadmin-meta packages
education	Pull in kde-apps/kdeedu-meta packages
games	Pull in kde-apps/kdegames-meta packages
graphics	Pull in kde-apps/kdegraphics-meta packages
multimedia	Pull in kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta packages
network	Pull in kde-apps/kdenetwork-meta packages
pim	Pull in KDE PIM suite
sdk	Pull in developer-specific meta-packages
utils	Pull in kde-apps/kdeutils-meta packages

kdeadmin-meta

cron	Installs KDE application for virtual/cron configuration

kdecore-meta

share	Install kde-frameworks/purpose for share file context menu actions in kde-apps/dolphin
thumbnail	Install kde-apps/ffmpegthumbs and kde-apps/thumbnailers for thumbnail generation in kde-apps/dolphin
webengine	Enable www-client/falkon which depends on dev-qt/qtwebengine

kdeedu-meta

webengine	Enable packages requiring dev-qt/qtwebengine

kdegraphics-meta

color-management	Enable color management via media-libs/opencolorio

kdemultimedia-meta

cdrom	Include packages for optical discs

kdenetwork-meta

bittorrent	Pull in net-p2p/ktorrent for BitTorrent protocol support
dropbox	Enable support for Dropbox in kde-apps/dolphin via kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-dropbox
samba	Enable support for net-fs/samba file sharing plugin from within file properties
telepathy	Enable support for Plasma Telepathy (instant messaging) integration via kde-apps/plasma-telepathy-meta
webengine	Enable support for Google Drive integration via kde-misc/kio-gdrive

kdenlive

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
share	Enable support for a share menu using kde-frameworks/purpose

kdepim-addons

importwizard	Enable additional import plugins for kde-apps/akonadi-import-wizard
markdown	Enable Markdown support via app-text/discount

kdepim-meta

bogofilter	Install mail-filter/bogofilter for spam filter support in kde-apps/kmail
clamav	Install app-antivirus/clamav for virus detection support in kde-apps/kmail
spamassassin	Install mail-filter/spamassassin for spam filter support in kde-apps/kmail

kdepim-runtime

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

kdesdk-meta

git	Enable support for Git VCS in kde-apps/dolphin via kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-git
mercurial	Enable support for Mercurial VCS in kde-apps/dolphin via kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-mercurial
subversion	Enable support for Apache Subversion VCS in kde-apps/dolphin via kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-subversion
webengine	Enable dev-util/kdevelop, requiring dev-qt/qtwebengine

kdeutils-meta

7zip	Install app-arch/p7zip for 7zip archive support in kde-apps/ark
floppy	Install kde-apps/kfloppy to format and create DOS or ext2fs filesystems in a floppy.
gpg	Install kde-apps/kgpg which depends on kde-apps/akonadi
lrz	Install app-arch/lrzip for LRZ archive support in kde-apps/ark
rar	Install one of app-arch/rar, app-arch/unrar or app-arch/unar for RAR archive support in kde-apps/ark
webengine	Enable kde-apps/kimagemapeditor, requiring dev-qt/qtwebengine

kget

bittorrent	Enable bittorrent transfer plugin through net-libs/libktorrent
gpg	Enable signature verification by GpgME++ via app-crypt/gpgme
mms	Enable MMS (Microsoft Media Server) plugin through media-libs/libmms

kig

geogebra	Support files created by sci-mathematics/geogebra-bin
scripting	Support Python scripting

kio-extras

X	Enable support for XCursor thumbnails via x11-libs/libX11
activities	Enable activities KIO worker and fileitem plugin
ios	Enable AFC (Apple File Conduit) KIO worker for iOS devices support
man	Enable manpages KIO worker
nfs	Enable NFS support using net-libs/libtirpc
phonon	Enable file audio preview plugin using media-libs/phonon
sftp	Enable SFTP protocol support using net-libs/libssh
taglib	Enable audio thumbnails via media-libs/taglib

kleopatra

pim	Enable WKS publishing support using kde-apps/kmail

kmag

keyboardfocus	Enable keyboard focus tracking

kmail

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

knights

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

konqueror

activities	Enable kactivities support
speech	Build text-to-speech plugin

kopete

addbookmarks	Automatically add incoming urls to bookmarks.
autoreplace	Automatically replace selected text
contactnotes	Enables writing personal notes for contacts.
gadu	Enable the Gadu protocol handler.
groupwise	Enable the Groupwise protocol handler.
highlight	Allows you to specify highlights on specific events.
history	Enables saving chat history.
latex	Embed latex formatted text into messages.
meanwhile	Enable the Sametime protocol handler.
nowlistening	Shows song you currently listen to in your status/etc. Bindings for many players.
otr	Allows crypting your chat (drugs and talking nonsense are considered as good alternatives ;]).
pipes	Send messages to external pipe.
privacy	Filter for incoming messages
statistics	Everybody loves statistic graphs, especially cake ones. ;]
testbed	Enable the testbed protocol.
texteffect	Various fancy text effects for your messages (don't ever consider writing us with this enabled ;]).
translator	Translate incoming and outgoing messages.
urlpicpreview	Enables in conversation pictures preview.
webpresence	Show your status and some more information on web.
winpopup	Enable pop-up messages sending on windows. (same as good old "net send" messages ;])
zeroconf	Enable Link-Local Messaging via the bonjour protocol.

kpimtextedit

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
speech	Enable text-to-speech support

krdc

activities	Enable Plasma Activities support via kde-frameworks/kactivities

ksystemlog

kdesu	Run as root using kdesu from kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools

ktouch

X	Enable support for X11 Keyboard Layout Detection

ktp-accounts-kcm

experimental	Enables disabled telepathy services (currently only steam)

ktp-common-internals

otr	Enable support for encrypted conversations using Off-The-Records messaging
sso	Enable support for Single sign-on through KAccounts

ktp-text-ui

speech	Enable incoming messages to be read out using text-to-speech

kwave

qtmedia	Enable playback via Qt5Multimedia

libkdepim

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

libkleo

fancyviewer	Use kde-apps/kpimtextedit for an improved audit log viewer

libksane

kwallet	Enable encrypted storage of passwords with kde-frameworks/kwallet

libksieve

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

mailcommon

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

marble

aprs	Enable support for APRS data sources
designer	Install plugin for dev-qt/designer
geolocation	Enable position information via dev-qt/qtpositioning
pbf	Enable OpenStreetMap PBF file support via dev-libs/protobuf
phonon	Enable sound support via media-libs/phonon
shapefile	Enable support for ESRI shapefiles
webengine	Use dev-qt/qtwebengine for embedded web browser

messagelib

speech	Enable text-to-speech support

okular

crypt	Enable support for password-encrypted documents via kde-frameworks/kwallet
epub	Enable E-Book support via app-text/ebook-tools
image-backend	Enable image viewing support
markdown	Enable Markdown support via app-text/discount
mobi	Enable mobipocket support via kde-apps/kdegraphics-mobipocket
phonon	Enable sound support via media-libs/phonon
plucker	Enable Plucker E-Book for Palm OS devices support
qml	Install Okular Qml components
share	Enable support for a share menu using kde-frameworks/purpose
speech	Enable text-to-speech support

pimcommon

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

spectacle

share	Enable support for a share menu using kde-frameworks/purpose

step

qalculate	Enable the libqalculate library for unit conversion

thumbnailers

mobi	Enable mobipocket thumbnail generation using kde-apps/kdegraphics-mobipocket

umbrello

php	Enable PHP import support using dev-util/kdevelop and dev-util/kdevelop-pg-qt

yakuake

absolute-position	Use kde-frameworks/kwayland for absolute window positioning in KWin

kde-frameworks

kcompletion

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

kconfig

qml	Enable QML/QtQuick support via dev-qt/qtdeclarative

kconfigwidgets

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

kfilemetadata

epub	Enable support for reading EPUB ebook metadata
mobi	Enable mobipocket support via kde-apps/kdegraphics-mobipocket

kglobalaccel

X	Build the kglobalacceld runtime needed for X

kiconthemes

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

kimageformats

avif	Support the AVIF image file format
eps	Support the EPS graphics file format
jpegxl	Support for JPEG XL image format

kinit

caps	Capabilities support for improved security and better OOM handling

kio

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
kwallet	Enable permanent storage of passwords for kpasswdserver with kde-frameworks/kwallet

kitemmodels

qml	Enable QML support via dev-qt/qtdeclarative

kitemviews

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

knewstuff

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
opds	Enable support for the Open Publication Distribution System via kde-frameworks/syndication

knotifications

phonon	Play notification sounds via media-libs/phonon instead of media-libs/libcanberra
qml	Enable QML support via dev-qt/qtdeclarative
speech	Enable text-to-speech notification support

knotifyconfig

phonon	Play notification sounds via media-libs/phonon instead of media-libs/libcanberra

kplotting

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

krunner

activities	Enable search runner for KDE Activities history

ktexteditor

editorconfig	Enable support for EditorConfig configuration files

ktextwidgets

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
speech	Enable text-to-speech support

kwallet

gpg	Support wallets with GnuPG encryption in addition to the default blowfish-encrypted file

kwidgetsaddons

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

kxmlgui

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer

networkmanager-qt

teamd	Enable Teamd control support

prison

qml	Enable QML/QtQuick support via dev-qt/qtdeclarative

purpose

kaccounts	Enable support for system-wide defined KAccounts

sonnet

aspell	Enable the app-text/aspell spell-checking backend
designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
hunspell	Enable the app-text/hunspell spell-checking backend
qml	Enable QML/QtQuick support via dev-qt/qtdeclarative

kde-misc

kdeconnect

X	Enable remote input mousepad plugin using x11-libs/libfakekey
pulseaudio	Enable system volume control plugin using media-libs/libpulse
telephony	Enable telephony plugin using kde-frameworks/modemmanager-qt

kio-gdrive

share	Enable support for a share menu using kde-frameworks/purpose

tellico

bibtex	Add support for bibtex importing using btparse from dev-perl/Text-BibTeX
discid	Add support for reading disc IDs from audio CDs
yaz	Add support for searching Z39.50 databases

kde-plasma

discover

firmware	Enable support for firmware upgrades using sys-apps/fwupd
flatpak	Enable support for flatpak repositories using sys-apps/flatpak
snap	Enable support for snap packages using app-containers/snapd
webengine	Enable webflow support using dev-qt/qtwebview and dev-qt/qtwebengine instead of default URL handler

drkonqi

systemd	Enable Coredumpd integration

kde-cli-tools

kdesu	Build graphical frontend for kde-frameworks/kdesu

kdeplasma-addons

alternate-calendar	Support alternate calendar systems (currently Chinese or Indian) via dev-libs/icu
networkmanager	Disable wallpaper update when using metered connections
share	Enable applet for quickly sharing data to a variety of sources
webengine	Enable dictionary and web browser applets using dev-qt/qtwebengine

ksystemstats

networkmanager	Enable improved backend for Network statistics using kde-frameworks/networkmanager-qt

kwin

lock	Enable screen locking via kde-plasma/kscreenlocker
multimedia	Enable effect video button in desktop effects KCM

libksysguard

designer	Build plugins for dev-qt/designer
webengine	Enable display of detailed memory information using dev-qt/qtwebengine.

plasma-desktop

ibus	Use ibus input method via app-i18n/ibus
kaccounts	Build the OpenDesktop integration plugin
scim	Enable applets that use app-i18n/scim

plasma-firewall

firewalld	Build net-firewall/firewalld backend
ufw	Build net-firewall/ufw backend

plasma-meta

browser-integration	Enable integration with Chrome/Firefox with browser extensions
colord	Enable kde-plasma/kwin color management via x11-misc/colord
crash-handler	Pull in kde-plasma/drkonqi for assisted upstream crash reports
crypt	Pull in kde-plasma/plasma-vault for encrypted vaults integration
desktop-portal	Enable sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal backend implementation for Plasma
discover	Pull in resources management GUI; a centralised GHNS alternative and optional sys-apps/fwupd frontend
display-manager	Pull in a graphical display manager
firewall	Pull in kde-plasma/plasma-firewall for system firewall administration
flatpak	Pull in kde-plasma/flatpak-kcm for flatpak permissions administration
grub	Pull in Breeze theme for sys-boot/grub
gtk	Enable Breeze widget style and system settings module for GTK+
kwallet	Enable support for KWallet auto-unlocking via kde-plasma/kwallet-pam
legacy-systray	Add support for legacy applications using kde-plasma/xembed-sni-proxy
plymouth	Pull in Breeze theme for sys-boot/plymouth
pulseaudio	Install Plasma applet for PulseAudio volume management
sddm	Pull in the x11-misc/sddm display manager and system settings module
sdk	Pull in kde-plasma/plasma-sdk for Plasma development
smart	Pull in kde-plasma/plasma-disks for disk health monitoring
thunderbolt	Pull in kde-plasma/plasma-thunderbolt control center module
wallpapers	Install wallpapers for the Plasma Workspace

plasma-nm

openconnect	Build support for the OpenConnect VPN client
teamd	Enable Teamd control support

plasma-welcome

discover	Pull in resources management GUI; a centralised GHNS alternative and optional sys-apps/fwupd frontend
kaccounts	Build the OpenDesktop integration plugin

plasma-workspace

appstream	Enable AppStream software metadata support
geolocation	Enables dataengine providing location information
policykit	Enable locale generation and Users KCM using sys-auth/polkit and sys-apps/accountsservice
screencast	Enable screencast portal using kde-plasma/kpipewire
telemetry	Enable User Feedback control module for kde-plasma/systemsettings
wallpaper-metadata	Show metadata for image wallpaper plugin using kde-apps/libkexiv2

powerdevil

brightness-control	Enable screen brightness control using app-misc/ddcutil
wireless	Enable wireless energy saving actions via kde-frameworks/bluez-qt and kde-frameworks/networkmanager-qt

lxqt-base

liblxqt

backlight	Enable backlight control features.

lxqt-config

monitor	Build monitor settings tool
touchpad	Build touchpad settings tool

lxqt-meta

about	Install lxqt-base/lxqt-about
admin	Install lxqt-base/lxqt-admin
archiver	Install app-arch/lxqt-archiver
desktop-portal	Enable the LXQt sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal backend implementation
display-manager	Install a graphical display manager
filemanager	Install x11-misc/pcmanfm-qtfile manager
lximage	Install media-gfx/lximage-qtimage viewer
minimal	Do not install x11-wm/openboxwindow manager
nls	Install dev-qt/qttranslations to better support different locales
powermanagement	Install lxqt-base/lxqt-powermanagement package
processviewer	Install x11-misc/qps package
screenshot	Install x11-misc/screengrab package
sddm	Install x11-misc/sddm display manager
ssh-askpass	Install lxqt-base/lxqt-openssh-askpass user password prompt tool
sudo	Install lxqt-base/lxqt-sudo
terminal	Install x11-terms/qterminal package
trash	Install gnome-base/gvfs to enable 'trash' functionality in x11-misc/pcmanfm-qt

lxqt-panel

colorpicker	Build colorpicker plugin
cpuload	Build cpuload plugin
desktopswitch	Build desktopswitch plugin
directorymenu	Build directorymenu plugin
dom	Build dom plugin
kbindicator	Build kbindicator plugin
mainmenu	Build mainmenu plugin
mount	Build mount plugin
networkmonitor	Build networkmonitor plugin
quicklaunch	Build quicklaunch plugin
showdesktop	Build showdesktop plugin
spacer	Build spacer plugin
statusnotifier	Build statusnotifier plugin
sysstat	Build sysstat plugin
taskbar	Build taskbar plugin
tray	Build tray plugin
volume	Build volume plugin
worldclock	Build worldclock plugin

mail-client

aerc

notmuch	Enable support for net-mail/notmuch

alot

doc	Install user manual and API documentation

alpine

chappa	enhance Alpine by applying Eduardo Chappa's patches
onlyalpine	installs only the alpine binary, so it does not collied with pico and/or pine
passfile	Adds support for caching passwords into a file between sessions
smime	Enable support for S/MIME

balsa

rubrica	Adds support for rubrica addressbook
systray	Enable System Tray Icon support

claws-mail

archive	Enable archiving plugin
bogofilter	Build mail-filter/bogofilter plugin
gdata	Enable plugin for access to Google data providers
libcanberra	Enable sound notification in connection with USE=notification
libnotify	Enable notification on the desktop in connection with USE=notification
litehtml	Enable dev-libs/gumbo html viewer plugin
notification	Notification for new mail in different way, see also USE flags libcanberra, libindicate and libnotify
oauth	Enable OAuth2 authentication support
pgp	Enable PGP support
sieve	Build plugin for sieve filter support
smime	Build plugin for S/MIME support
spam-report	Enable plugin for spam reporting to various services
spamassassin	Build mail-filter/spamassassin plugin

evolution

archive	Enable archives support in attachments via app-arch/gnome-autoar
bogofilter	Build mail-filter/bogofilter plugin
geolocation	Enable support for displaying contacts on a map inside evolution using media-libs/libchamplain
highlight	Enable text highlighting plugin
ldap	Enable support for fetching contacts from an LDAP or Active Directory server using net-nds/openldap
spamassassin	Build mail-filter/spamassassin plugin
weather	Enable optional weather calendar support
ytnef	Enable optional TNEF attachments parser support using net-mail/ytnef

geary

ytnef	Enable optional TNEF attachments parser support using net-mail/ytnef

mutt

autocrypt	Enable autocrypt.org support
berkdb	Enable sys-libs/db database backend for header caching
gdbm	Enable sys-libs/gdbm database backend for header caching
gpgme	Build gpgme backend to support S/MIME, PGP/MIME and traditional/inline PGP
gsasl	Use GNU SASL via virtual/gsasl instead of Cyrus SASL (requires USE=sasl)
hcache	Enable header cache, one database backend needs to be enabled
lmdb	Enable dev-db/lmdb database backend for header caching
pgp-classic	Build classic_pgp backend to support PGP/MIME and traditional/inline PGP
pop	Enable support for POP3 mailboxes
smime-classic	Build classic_smime backend to support S/MIME
smtp	Enable support for direct SMTP delivery
tokyocabinet	Enable dev-db/tokyocabinet database backend for header caching

neomutt

autocrypt	Enable autocrypt.org support
berkdb	Enable BDB (Berkley DB) backend for header caching
gdbm	Enable GDBM (GNU dbm) backend for header caching
gpgme	Build gpgme backend to support S/MIME, PGP/MIME and traditional/inline PGP
kyotocabinet	Enable Kyoto Cabinet database backend for header caching
lmdb	Enable LMDB (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database) backend for header caching
lz4	Add lz4 support for header cache compression
notmuch	Enable support for net-mail/notmuch
pgp-classic	Build classic-pgp backend to support PGP/MIME and traditional/inline PGP
qdbm	Enable QDBM (Quicker Database Manager) database backend for header caching
smime-classic	Build classic-smime backend to support S/MIME
tokyocabinet	Enable Tokyo Cabinet database backend for header caching
zlib	Add zlib support for header cache compression
zstd	Add zstd support for header cache compression

roundcube

change-password	Allow users to change passwords through Roundcube
enigma	Add dependencies to support server-side GnuPG signing and/or encryption through the enigma plugin
fileinfo	Use the dev-lang/php fileinfo extension to guess the mime_type of attachments
ldap	Add dependencies to support connecting to an LDAP address book server

s-nail

kerberos	If network is enabled, this adds support for GSSAPI login on IMAP through virtual/krb5.
net	Enable support for network protocols (POP, IMAP and SMTP). If you only need to send mail with the local Transport Agent, disabling this will get you support for only /usr/sbin/sendmail call.
ssl	If network is enabled, this adds support for S/MIME and SSL/TLS-powered protocols through dev-libs/openssl.

thunderbird

clang	Use Clang compiler instead of GCC
eme-free	Disable EME (DRM plugin) capability at build time
hwaccel	Force-enable hardware-accelerated rendering (Mozilla bug 594876)
libproxy	Enable libproxy support
lto	Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)
openh264	Use media-libs/openh264 for H.264 support instead of downloading binary blob from Mozilla at runtime
pgo	Add support for profile-guided optimization using gcc-4.5, for faster binaries. This option will double the compile time.
pulseaudio	Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or Pipewire, or apulse if installed)
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend
system-av1	Use the system-wide media-libs/dav1d and media-libs/libaom library instead of bundled.
system-harfbuzz	Use the system-wide media-libs/harfbuzz and media-gfx/graphite2 instead of bundled.
system-icu	Use the system-wide dev-libs/icu instead of bundled.
system-jpeg	Use the system-wide media-libs/libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled.
system-libevent	Use the system-wide dev-libs/libevent instead of bundled.
system-librnp	Use system-wide dev-util/librnp instead of bundled one.
system-libvpx	Use the system-wide media-libs/libvpx instead of bundled.
system-png	Use the system-wide media-libs/libpng instead of bundled (requires APNG patches)
system-python-libs	Use system's python site instead of bundled python libraries
system-webp	Use the system-wide media-libs/libwebp instead of bundled.
wifi	Enable necko-wifi for NetworkManager integration, and access point MAC address scanning for better precision with opt-in geolocation services

mail-filter

MailScanner

exim	Set mail-mta/exim to used MTA
postfix	Set mail-mta/postfix to used MTA
spamassassin	Enable usage of mail-filter/spamassassin for spam protection

amavisd-new

courier	Add courier support
dkim	Add DomainKeys Identified Mail support
qmail	Add qmail support
razor	Add support for mail-filter/razor
rspamd	Add support for mail-filter/rspamd extension (HTTP only)
rspamd-https	Add support for mail-filter/rspamd extension (both HTTP and HTTPS)
spamassassin	Add support for mail-filter/spamassassin

bogofilter

tokyocabinet	Enable Tokyo Cabinet database support

dcc

rrdtool	Enable net-analyzer/rrdtool interface scripts

libmilter

poll	Use poll instead of select

maildrop

authlib	Add courier-authlib support
dovecot	Add dovecot authentication support
tools	Install maildirmake and deliverquota tools
trashquota	Count deleted messages as part of the maildir quota

mimedefang

poll	Use poll instead of select

opendkim

ldap	Enable openldap as a dataset facilitator or keys, determining domains to sign for, and any other dataset that opendkim supports.
lmdb	Add support for using dev-db/lmdb
lua	Enables control over signature verification, filtering and policy to be controlled by user defined lua scripts.
memcached	Add support for using dev-libs/libmemcached
opendbx	Use opendbx backend to facilitate dataset driven OpenDKIM configuration options like stats, bodylengthdb, etc. against a wide variety of database types
poll	Use poll() instead of select() for the provided asynchronous resolver library.
querycache	Add support for query caching (requires 'berkdb' flag)
sasl	Used to authenticate to a LDAP server in various ways if required.
stats	Add support for statistics (requires 'opendbx' flag)
unbound	Use the unbound dnssec library to perform DKIM DNS queries.

opendmarc

reports	Install the reports binaries: expire, import, reports, params
spf	Use the mail-filter/libspf2 for Sender Policy Framework checking

pyzor

gdbm	Enables the Gdbm back-end database engine for pyzord
mysql	Enables the MySQL back-end database engine for pyzord through dev-python/mysqlclient.
pyzord	Enable the pyzord server daemon
redis	Enables the redis back-end database engine for pyzord through dev-python/redis

rspamd

jit	Enable PCRE JIT support

spamassassin

cron	Install a cron job to update SpamAssassin's rules daily.
qmail	Build qmail functionality and docs

mail-mta

courier

fax	Enables fax support in the courier mail server
norewrite	Prevents courier mail server from mangling virtual user addresses when sending
web	Enable the web interface
webmail	Enable the webmail interface

exim

arc	Adds support for Authenticated Receive Chain (ARC)
dane	Adds support for DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities
dcc	Adds support for Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC)
dkim	Adds support for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
dlfunc	Install local_scan.h header to compile separate dlfunc libraries
dmarc	Adds support for DMARC
dnsdb	Adds support for a DNS search for a record whose domain name is the supplied query
dovecot-sasl	Adds support for Dovecot's authentication
dsn	Adds support for Delivery Status Notifications (DSN)
exiscan-acl	Patch providing support for content scanning
lmtp	Adds support for lmtp
mbx	Adds support for UW's mbx format
pkcs11	Require pkcs11 support in net-libs/gnutls with USE=gnutls
prdr	Adds support for Per-Recipient Data Response
proxy	Add support for being behind a proxy, such as HAProxy
redis	Adds support for querying dev-db/redis
spf	Adds support for Sender Policy Framework
srs	Adds support for Sender Rewriting Scheme
srs-alt	Use mail-filter/libsrs_alt to implement SRS support
srs-native	Use Exim's built-in SRS support to implement SRS support
tdb	Use sys-libs/tdb for internal database storage (such as hints database)
tpda	Adds support for Transport Post-Delivery Actions

msmtp

daemon	Build/install msmtpd MTA daemon
mta	Enable this to install as system-wide MTA

netqmail

authcram	Enable AUTHCRAM support
gencertdaily	Generate SSL certificates daily instead of hourly
highvolume	Prepare netqmail for high volume servers
pop3	Include POP3 server

notqmail

gencertdaily	Generate SSL certificates daily instead of hourly
highvolume	Prepare notqmail for high volume servers
pop3	Include POP3 server

opensmtpd

mta	Enable this to install as system-wide MTA

postfix

dovecot-sasl	Enable net-mail/dovecot protocol version 1 (server only) SASL implementation
eai	Add support for SMTPUTF8
ldap-bind	Add support for binding to LDAP backend using dev-libs/cyrus-sasl
lmdb	Add support for using dev-db/lmdb for lookup tables
memcached	Add support for using net-misc/memcached for lookup tables

qpsmtpd

postfix	create user with permissions for proper postfix interaction

ssmtp

mta	Install symlinks for sendmail-compatible MTA.

mate-base

caja

mate	Install x11-themes/mate-icon-theme which is needed when this package is used in the MATE desktop environment.

mate

base	Install base MATE Desktop applications that are recommended for the most common usage; for example, this installs the file manager. Disable this and other USE flags if you want a more minimal MATE Desktop.
extras	Install additional MATE Desktop applications that are recommended for extended usage of the MATE Desktop as upstream sees it; for example, this installs MATE Desktop's office related applications. Disable this if you plan to use your own non-MATE Desktop alternatives or a custom mixture of MATE and non-MATE packages.
help	Install gnome-extra/yelp to handle in application help menus and documentation browsing
notification	Force notification daemon to default to MATE's notification daemon. Enabled by default. Disable if it causes conflicts with other installed desktop environments.
themes	Install MATE Desktop's themes; if you use other themes, you can disable this to spare some space and time.

mate-applets

cpupower	Enable support for cpu frequency manipulation using sys-power/cpupower
netlink	Use dev-libs/libnl

mate-applets-meta

appindicator	Pull in mate-extra/mate-indicator-applet for AppIndicator applet
sensors	Pull in mate-extra/mate-sensors-applet for hw sensors applet

mate-control-center

accountsservice	Add support for AccountsService

mate-session-manager

gles2	Build with support for GLESv2 acceleration sessions

mate-settings-daemon

rfkill	build support for rfkill

mate-extra

caja-extensions

cdr	Add an extension to burn files to cds using app-cdr/brasero.
gajim	Add an extension to support net-im/gajim.
image-converter	Add image conversion support.
mail	Add an extension to support e-mail functionality.
open-terminal	Add an extension to support an open terminal.
pidgin	Add an extension to support net-im/pidgin
share	Add an extension to support sharing files.
wallpaper	Add an extension to support setting an image as the current wallpaper

mate-polkit

accountsservice	Support extraction of data from AccountsService

mate-power-manager

applet	Enable building of the MATE applet.

mate-system-monitor

wnck	Enable experimental support using x11-libs/libwnck.

mate-utils

applet	Enable the mate dictionary applet

media-fonts

corefonts

tahoma	Also install the Tahoma font. Due to the lack of a free bold variant, this may render badly. See bug 184790.

culmus

ancient	Install ancient semitic scripts
fancy	Install fancy fonts
fontforge	Use media-gfx/fontforge to build fonts from source
taamey	Install taamey fonts

dejavu

fontforge	Use media-gfx/fontforge to build fonts from source

essays1743

otf	Install the OpenType version of the font
ttf	Install the TrueType version of the font

fira-mono

otf	Install the OpenType version of the font
ttf	Install the TrueType version of the font

fira-sans

otf	Install the OpenType version of the font
ttf	Install the TrueType version of the font

fontawesome

otf	Install the OpenType version of the font
ttf	Install the TrueType version of the font

fonts-meta

emoji	Install a font supporting emojis
latin	Install additional latin fonts
ms	Install (free) fonts for the "ms" preset

ibm-plex

otf	Install OTF fonts
ttf	Install TTF fonts

intlfonts

bdf	Install BDF fonts in addition to PCF

iosevka

iosevka	Install the classic Iosevka font.
iosevka-aile	Install Iosevka Aile, a quasi-proportional sans-serif font.
iosevka-curly	Install Iosevka Curly, a curlier variant of Iosevka.
iosevka-curly-slab	Install Iosevka Curly Slab, the curly font, with slab-serifs.
iosevka-etoile	Install Iosevka Etoile, a quasi-proportional slab-serif font.
iosevka-slab	Install Iosevka Slab, a monospace slab-serif font.
iosevka-ss01	Install Iosevka SS01, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Andale Mono.
iosevka-ss02	Install Iosevka SS02, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Anonymous Pro Style.
iosevka-ss03	Install Iosevka SS03, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Consolas.
iosevka-ss04	Install Iosevka SS04, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Menlo.
iosevka-ss05	Install Iosevka SS05, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Fira Mono.
iosevka-ss06	Install Iosevka SS06, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Liberation Mono.
iosevka-ss07	Install Iosevka SS07, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Monaco.
iosevka-ss08	Install Iosevka SS08, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Pragmata Pro.
iosevka-ss09	Install Iosevka SS09, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Source Code Pro.
iosevka-ss10	Install Iosevka SS10, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Envy Code R.
iosevka-ss11	Install Iosevka SS11, an Iosevka variant made in the style of X Windows Fixed.
iosevka-ss12	Install Iosevka SS12, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Ubuntu Mono.
iosevka-ss13	Install Iosevka SS13, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Lucida.
iosevka-ss14	Install Iosevka SS14, an Iosevka variant made in the style of JetBrains Mono.
iosevka-ss15	Install Iosevka SS15, an Iosevka variant made in the style of IBM Plex Mono.
iosevka-ss16	Install Iosevka SS16, an Iosevka variant made in the style of PT Mono.
iosevka-ss17	Install Iosevka SS17, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Recursive Mono.
iosevka-ss18	Install Iosevka SS18, an Iosevka variant made in the style of Input Mono.

liberation-fonts

fontforge	Use media-gfx/fontforge to build fonts from source

montecarlo

bdf	Install BDF fonts in addition to PCF

mplus-outline-fonts

ipafont	Generates new fonts merged with media-fonts/ja-ipafonts

noto

extra	Install full upstream font set including condensed, semi-bold, extra-light variants

noto-emoji

icons	Install Noto Emoji icon theme

sil-charis

compact	Use more compactly spaced font

terminus-font

a-like-o	Changes view of letter 'a' - a looks like o (see homepage)
center-tilde	Place the '~' character vertically centered on the line instead of to the top.
distinct-l	ll2 variant with more distinctive l (lowercase L)
otf	Install Open Type Font (OTF) (required for HarfBuzz backend)
pcf-8bit	Install Portable Compiled Font (PCF) (X11 bitmap fonts), 8-bit encodings
pcf-unicode	Install Portable Compiled Font (PCF) (X11 bitmap fonts), Unicode encodings
psf	Install PC Screen Font (PSF) with unicode data (for linux console)
quote	Changes view of quotes: symmetric ` and ' instead of asymmetric one (see homepage)
ru-dv	Changes view of Russian letters 'de' and 've' (see homepage)
ru-g	Changes view of Russian letter 'ge' (see homepage)
ru-i	Changes view of Russian letter 'i' - not like Latin u, but like "mirrored" N (see homepage)
ru-k	Changes view of Russian letter 'k' (see homepage)

unifont

fontforge	Use media-gfx/fontforge to build fonts from source
utils	Install unifont utilities

vollkorn

otf	Install the OpenType version of the font
ttf	Install the TrueType version of the font

media-gfx

ahoviewer

plugins	Build plugin support for now, in future pull additional plugins
rar	Rar archive support
zip	Zip archive support

album

plugins	Install optional plugins
themes	Install optional themes

alembic

hdf5	Add support sci-libs/hdf5
test	Build and run the test-suite

asymptote

boehm-gc	Enables using the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector
context	Enables support for ConTeXt format (dev-texlive/texlive-context)
curl	Enables running remote programs via net-misc/curl
lsp	Enables Language Server Protocol
offscreen	Enables off-screen rendering
sigsegv	Enables using dev-libs/libsigsegv

blender

alembic	Add support for Alembic through media-gfx/alembic.
bullet	Enable Bullet (Physics Engine).
collada	Add support for Collada interchange format through media-libs/opencollada.
color-management	Enable color management via media-libs/opencolorio.
cuda	Build cycles renderer with nVidia CUDA support.
cycles	Build cycles renderer (requires media-libs/openimageio and dev-libs/boost).
cycles-bin-kernels	Precompile the cycles render kernels for the CUDA/HIP/OneAPI backends, if they are enabled, at compile time. This makes it so that the user doesn't have to wait for the kernels to compile when they are used for the first time in Blender. If this option is not on, they will be built as needed at runtime.
dds	Adds DDS textures support to Blender.
embree	Use embree to accelerate certain areas of the Cycles render engine.
fluid	Adds fluid simulation support via the built-in Mantaflow library.
headless	Build without graphical support (renderfarm, server mode only).
nanovdb	Enable nanoVDB support in Cycles. Uses less memory than regular openVDB when rendering.
ndof	Enable NDOF input devices (SpaceNavigator and friends).
oidn	Enable OpenImageDenoiser Support
openimageio	Enable OpenImageIO Support
openpgl	Enable path guiding support in Cycles
opensubdiv	Add rendering support form OpenSubdiv from Dreamworks Animation through media-libs/opensubdiv.
openvdb	Enable openvdb for volumetric processing, like the voxel remesher. Also enables volumetric GPU preview rendering for Nvidia cards.
optix	Add support for NVIDIA's OptiX Raytracing Engine.
osl	Add support for OpenShadingLanguage scripting.
potrace	Add support for converting bitmaps into Grease pencil line using the potrace library.
pugixml	Enable PugiXML support (Used for OpenImageIO, Grease Pencil SVG export)
tbb	Use threading building blocks library from dev-cpp/tbb.

chafa

tools	Build command-line tools

darktable

avif	Support importing and exporting AVIF images
flickr	Add support for uploading photos to flickr
gamepad	Support using game controllers as input devices
geolocation	Enable geotagging support
gmic	Use the G'MIC image-processing framework (media-gfx/gmic), e.g. to support Colour LUTs compressed using their compression scheme
jpegxl	Enable support for JPEG XL image format
kwallet	Enable encrypted storage of passwords with kde-frameworks/kwallet
lto	Enable link-time optimisations in the RawSpeed library
midi	Support using MIDI input devices such as Behringer X-Touch Mini, Arturia Beatstep or Korg nanoKONTROL2, as input devices
opencl	Enable opencl support
tools	Install tools for generating base curves and noise profiles

digikam

addressbook	Enable akonadi contact integration
imagemagick	Enable support for additional image formats such as XCF, FITS, HEIC etc.
lensfun	Enable support for media-libs/lensfun
marble	Enable support for geolocation using kde-apps/marble
panorama	Build the panorama plugin which requires media-gfx/hugin
semantic-desktop	Enable kde-frameworks/kfilemetadata support

eog-plugins

map	Enable world map display using media-libs/libchamplain

eom

imagemagick	Use media-gfx/imagemagick as an external backend for the thumbnailer

exact-image

swig	Adds Swig support dev-lang/swig

exiv2

bmff	Add support for the ISOBMFF format
webready	Support reading metadata over the internet

fbida

X	Install the Motif based image viewer "ida"
fbcon	Install the framebuffer image viewer "fbi"
ghostscript	Install the framebuffer ghostscript viewer "fbgs"

fontforge

truetype-debugger	Enable truetype debugger in fontforge
woff2	Enable support for WOFF2 format

fotowall

webcam	Enable webcam support

freecad

addonmgr	Build the addon manager module for automatic handling of 3rd party addons
cloud	Build the Cloud workbench, to access cloud providers (mostly Amazon S3).
designer	Build and install the Qt designer plugin, so the FreeCAD widgets can be used from within designer.
fem	Build the FEM module and workbench which provides Finite Element Analysis (FEA) workflows
gui	Build FreeCAD with a Qt based GUI. If built without setting this USE flag, FreeCAD can be used in a headless mode, for server-side instances. The Python modules are available, without their GUI parts though, if this is unset.
idf	Build the IDF module to provide file exchange capabilities with IDF files
image	Build the image module and workbench for working with bitmap images
inspection	Build the inspection workbench which gives you specific tools for examination of shapes (experimental)
material	Build the material module and workbench to work with materials
netgen	Build support for the netgen mesher through media-gfx/netgen.
openscad	Build the OpenSCAD module for interoperability with OpenSCAD and repairing Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) history
part-design	Build the part design module and workbench for build part shapes from sketches
path	Build the path module and workbench to procude G-Code instructions for CNC
pcl	Use external sci-libs/pcl for point clouds support.
points	Build the points module and workbench for working with point clouds
raytracing	Build the raytracing module and workbench for raytracing and rendering
robot	Build the robot module and workbench for studying robot movements
show	Build the show module, a helper module for visibility automation
surface	Build the surface module and workbench
techdraw	Build the techdraw module and workbench, a more advanced and feature-rich successor of the drawing workbench
tux	Build the Tux module

geeqie

ffmpegthumbnailer	Enable video thumbnail support with media-video/ffmpegthumbnailer
jpegxl	Enable support for JPEG XL image format
map	Enable items GPS map display

gimp

jpegxl	Enable support for JPEG XL image format
vector-icons	Enable support for vector icons (experimental)

gmic

cli	Build CLI interface
opencv	Enable support for webcams using the OpenCV library

graphicsmagick

dynamic-loading	Compile graphicsmagick with dynamically loadable modules
fpx	Enable FlashPix support with media-libs/libfpx
jpegxl	Enable support for JPEG XL image format
q16	Set storage quantum size to 16 (~2*memory)
q32	Set storage quantum size to 32 (~5*memory)

graphviz

X	Builds dotty, lneato, unflatten, vimdot, builds plugin -Txlib, and enables support for x11 in various other modules (needs cairo)
devil	Enables DevIL output plugin -Tdevil
gtk2	Enables gtk+ output plugin -Tgtk (needs cairo)
gts	Enables support for GNU Triangulated Surface Library (required for sfdp to work)
lasi	Enables PostScript output via media-libs/lasi, for plugin -Tlasi (needs cairo)

gthumb

jpegxl	Support for JPEG XL image format
slideshow	Enable slideshow plugin

hugin

sift	automatically align images with media-gfx/autopano-sift-C

imagemagick

corefonts	Use media-fonts/corefonts which is required by some commands
fpx	Enable media-libs/libfpx support
hdri	Enable High Dynamic Range Images formats
jpegxl	Enable support for JPEG XL image format
lqr	Enable experimental liquid rescale support using media-libs/liblqr
opencl	Enable OpenCL support
pango	Enable Pango support using x11-libs/pango
q32	Set quantum depth value to 32
q8	Set quantum depth value to 8

imv

freeimage	Use media-libs/freeimage for additional image support

inkscape

cdr	Enable support for CorelDRAW files via media-libs/libcdr
dia	Enable DIA flow chart import via app-office/dia
inkjar	Enable support for OpenOffice.org SVG jar files
sourceview	Enable syntax highlighting support via x11-libs/gtksourceview
svg2	Enable support for new SVG2 features
visio	Enable support for Microsoft Visio diagrams via media-libs/libvisio
wpg	Enable support for WordPerfect graphics via app-text/libwpg

iscan-plugin-gt-f500

minimal	Install the firmware only, and not the plugin.

kphotoalbum

map	Enable map display support using kde-apps/marble
phonon	Enable media-libs/phonon video backend (known to crash on some video formats)
share	Enable support for a share menu using kde-frameworks/purpose
vlc	Enable media-video/vlc video backend (recommended for X11)

krita

color-management	Enable color management via media-libs/opencolorio
jpegxl	Support for JPEG XL image format
mypaint-brush-engine	Enable MyPaint brush engine support media-libs/libmypaint
qtmedia	Enable sound support for animations via dev-qt/qtmultimedia

librecad

tools	Build additional tool programs: tff2lff

luminance-hdr

fits	Enable support for the FITS format

mandelbulber

opencl	Enable GPU rendering support using OpenCL

meshlab

double-precision	Use double type instead of float type for scalars

netgen

logging	Enable logging through dev-libs/spdlog
opencascade	Enable OpenCASCADE support

nomacs

opencv	Build support for media-libs/opencv
plugins	Build officially support plugins

openclipart

gzip	Compresses clip art using gzip

openscad

egl	Build using EGL instead of GLX
experimental	Enable experimental features
gamepad	Add support for gamepads through dev-qt/qtgamepad
gui	Enable or disable building of the GUI
hidapi	Build in support for HID-Class devices using dev-libs/hidapi
mimalloc	Build using dev-libs/mimalloc as memory allocator
spacenav	Add support for space navigator devices through dev-libs/libspnav

openvdb

abi10-compat	Disables newer features to maintain compatibility with ABI10
abi8-compat	Disables newer features to maintain compatibility with ABI8
abi9-compat	Disables newer features to maintain compatibility with ABI9
ax	Build the OpenVDB AX module to perform custom manipulation of OpenVDB data via an expression language: AX
blosc	Allow using blosc compression via dev-libs/c-blosc
cuda	Enable support for CUDA in NanoVDB
nanovdb	A lightweight, header only, and GPU friendly version of VDB
numpy	Build pyopenvdb with support for dev-python/numpy
utils	Build utility binaries

photoqt

devil	Support additional image formats using media-libs/devil
freeimage	Support additional image formats using media-libs/freeimage
mpv	Support for video files using media-video/mpv

potrace

metric	default to a4 paper size and metric measurement

povray

io-restrictions	POV-Ray's mechanism for control of I/O operations

pqiv

archive	Enable support for images in archives and cbX comic book files

pstoedit

emf	Enable media-libs/libemf support
pptx	Enable support for generating PowerPoint pptx files

qimgv

opencv	Enable HQ scaling via media-libs/opencv
video	Add support for gif/webm playback via libmpv

qrencode

png	Enable PNG output support in qrencode tool

renderdoc

pyside2	Expose the QRenderdoc UI to Python scripting to allow for customisation
qt5	Build and install the qrenderdoc GUI

shotwell

opencv	Enable face detection via media-libs/opencv

skanpage

ocr	Enable support for Optical Character Recognition via app-text/tesseract

solvespace

system-mimalloc	Use system dev-libs/mimalloc instead of vendored library

ueberzugpp

opencv	Use media-libs/opencv for additional image formats and OpenCL accelerated scaling
wayland	Enable wayland support (proper window positioning is only supported with some compositors)
xcb-errors	Use x11-libs/xcb-util-errors for better error reporting with X

xpaint

pgf	Support for loading PGF images

xsane

ocr	Enable support for Optical Character Recognition reader

yafaray

fastmath	Enable mathematic approximations to make code faster
fasttrig	Enable trigonometric approximations to make code faster
opencv	Add support for media-libs/opencv image processing.

media-libs

a52dec

djbfft	Prefer D.J. Bernstein's library for fourier transforms

allegro

dumb	Enable media-libs/dumb module library support
physfs	Enable physfs support
vga	Enables the VGA graphics driver

alsa-lib

alisp	Enable support for ALISP (ALSA LISP) interpreter for advanced features.

alure

dumb	Enable media-libs/dumb module library support
fluidsynth	Enables Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis

assimp

samples	Build viewer library

aubio

double-precision	Compile in double precision mode.

avidemux-core

system-ffmpeg	Use the ffmpeg provided by the system.

avidemux-plugins

aften	Enable A/52 (AC-3) audio encoder support.
amr	Enable Adaptive Multi-Rate format support via media-libs/opencore-amr.
dcaenc	Enable DTS Coherent Acoustics audio encoder support via media-sound/dcaenc.
fdk	Adds support for encoding AAC using media-libs/fdk-aac.
fribidi	Enable unicode bidirectional algorithm support via dev-libs/fribidi.
twolame	Enable TwoLAME support via media-sound/twolame, an optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder.
vpx	Enable WebM VP8 Codec SDK support via media-libs/libvpx.
x265	Enables HEVC support with media-libs/x265.

cal3d

16bit-indices	Enables use of 16bit indices

chromaprint

tools	Build and install fpcalc and fpcollect tools

clutter

egl	Enable EGL backend.
gtk	Use gdk-pixbuf from x11-libs/gtk+ as image rendering backend

cogl

gles2	Enable OpenGL ES 2.0 support
kms	Enable KMS support.
pango	Build cogl-pango library for x11-libs/pango integration

coin

exceptions	Compile with C++ exceptions
qthelp	Build API documentation in QtHelp format

cubeb

rust	Use the newer rust-based audio backends if available
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend

dav1d

10bit	Add support for building 10-bit and 12-bit AV1.
8bit	Add support for decoding 8-bit AV1.
asm	Enable custom assembly for faster decoding.
xxhash	Enable dev-libs/xxhash support for hashing muxer

devil

allegro	Add support for Allegro

dumb

allegro	Add support for Allegro 4

embree

compact-polys	Enables double indexed poly layout.
ispc	Build Embree with support for ISPC applications.
raymask	Enables ray mask support.
ssp	When enabled, Embree compiles with stack protection against return address overrides. Stack protection will wield a minor performance decrease in return for higher security.
tbb	Use TBB instead of the built-in Embree tasking system.
tutorial	Enable to build Embree tutorials programs.

esdl

image	Enable image support

faad2

digitalradio	Digital Radio Mondiale (warning: disables other decoders)

fcft

harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz for grapheme and run shaping
libutf8proc	Use media-libs/harfbuzz and dev-libs/libutf8proc for run shaping

flickcurl

raptor	Use media-libs/raptor for proper RDF serializing

freetype

adobe-cff	Use Adobe CFF as default font-renderer
brotli	Enable brotli decompression support via app-arch/brotli
bzip2	Support bzip2 compressed PCF fonts.
cleartype-hinting	Bytecode hinting mode for TrueType fonts that activates subpixel hinting (a.k.a. ClearType hinting) by default
fontforge	Install internal headers required for TrueType debugger in media-gfx/fontforge (built with USE=truetype-debugger)
harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz for auto-hinting OpenType fonts. WARNING: may trigger circular dependencies!
infinality	Enable infinality options for improved LCD filtering
utils	Install utilities and examples from ft2demos

freeverb3

forcefpu	Disable assembly code
plugdouble	Build plugins in double precision mode (default is float)

ganv

fdgl	Use experimental force-directed graph layout

gd

avif	Enable support for the avif format via media-libs/libavif
webp	Enable support for the webp format

gegl

lensfun	Enable support for media-libs/lensfun.
sdl2	Add support for Simple Direct Layer 2.0 (media-libs/libsdl2)
umfpack	Enable sparse solving via sci-libs/umfpack.

glew

egl-only	Enable EGL support and disable X11 support

glfw

wayland-only	Enable wayland support and disable X11 support

gmmlib

custom-cflags	Do not override user CFLAGS like -march, -msse and similar with lib defaults. Not tested by upstream.

grilo

playlist	Enable support for playlists through dev-libs/totem-pl-parser

gst-plugins-bad

bzip2	Enable bzip2 encoder/decoder plugin
egl	Enable EGL support
gles2	Enable GLES2 support
qsv	Enable Intel Quick Sync Video using the media-libs/oneVPL dispatcher

gst-plugins-base

X	Enable ximagesink and xvimagesink plugins; build GLX platform support if USE=opengl is enabled; build x11 windowing system support if USE=egl is enabled
egl	Enable EGL platform support
gbm	Enable Graphics Buffer Manager based EGL windowing system support (requires egl and at least one of gles or opengl)
gles2	Enable OpenGL library and plugin via GLESv2 API (requires egl)
ivorbis	Enable integer based vorbis decoder
opengl	Enable OpenGL library and plugin via desktop OpenGL API
pango	Enable pango GStreamer plugin
wayland	Enable Wayland EGL windowing system support (requires egl and at least one of gles2 or opengl)

gstreamer

orc	Disable some PaX memory protections to allow plugins that use dev-lang/orc for runtime optimization to be used on hardened PaX systems
unwind	Enable sys-libs/libunwind usage for better backtrace support in leaks tracer module

harfbuzz

experimental	Enable experimental APIs
glib	Enable dev-libs/glib unicode functions
graphite	Enable media-gfx/graphite2 complementary shaper

imlib2

X	Use the X window system
apidoc	Provide doxygen generated API docs
bzip2	Bzip2 loader support
eps	Eps image loader support
filters	Build filter functions (blur, sharpen, etc)
gif	Gif image loader support
heif	Heif and Avif image loader support
jpeg	Jpeg image loader support
jpegxl	Jxl image loader support
mp3	ID3 loader support
packing	Enable structure packing. This will reduce memory footprint at the cost of unaligned memory access
png	PNG image loader support
shm	Use MIT shared memory support for X image transfer
text	Build text (TrueType font) functions
tiff	TIFF image loader support
webp	WEBP image loader support
zlib	Zlib loader support

intel-mediasdk

tools	Build analyse and inspect tools

jasper

heif	Enable experimental support for HEIF/HEIC, unsupported by upstream

leptonica

utils	Install command-line utilities

lib3mf

system-act	Use system-provided dev-go/act as code generator instead of package provided binaries. This flag will be removed after some time used for testing!

libafterimage

shaping	Use MIT shaped X windows extention.
shm	Use MIT shared memory extention for X image transfer.

libao

sndio	Add support for media-sound/sndio

libavif

aom	Enable support for the AOM codec encoding and decoding
dav1d	Enable support for the dav1d codec decoding
extras	Build extra apps (avifenc, avifdec) and test files
gdk-pixbuf	Build a gdk-pixbuf loader
rav1e	Enable support for the rav1e codec encoding
svt-av1	Enable support for the SVT-AV1 encoder

libbdplus

aacs	Add support for decryption of AACS

libbluray

aacs	Add support for decryption of AACS
bdplus	Use media-libs/libbdplus for BD+ decryption
java	Add support for BD-J
utils	Install command-line utilities and examples

libcanberra

alsa	Enables ALSA sound driver.
gstreamer	Enables gstreamer sound driver. Not useful when alsa or pulseaudio is available.
gtk2	Enables building of gtk+ helper library, gtk+ runtime sound effects and the canberra-gtk-play utility. To enable the gtk+ sound effects add canberra-gtk-module to the colon separated list of modules in the GTK_MODULES environment variable.
gtk3	Enables building of gtk+3 helper library, gtk+3 runtime sound effects and the canberra-gtk-play utility. To enable the gtk+3 sound effects add canberra-gtk-module to the colon separated list of modules in the GTK_MODULES environment variable.
pulseaudio	Enables PulseAudio sound driver that should be able to support positional event sounds. This is the preferred choice for best sound events experience and picked by default if compiled in and possible to use at runtime.
sound	Install x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop to get sounds on Gnome and Xfce.
tdb	Enables Trivial Database support for caching purposes.

libde265

dec265	Enable build of dec265 example program
enc265	Enable build of enc265 tool
sdl	Enable video output of dec265 example program with media-libs/libsdl
tools	Enable installation of varous binary tools

libepoxy

egl	Enable EGL support.

libffado

test-programs	Install standalone test programs

libggi

3dfx	Enables support for Voodoo chipsets, also called 3DFX and TDFX
vis	Enables sparc vis support for libggi

libgphoto2

serial	Enable serial port support

libgpod

gtk	Enable ArtworkDB support

libheif

aom	Use media-libs/libaom for AVIF encoding/decoding
gdk-pixbuf	Enable x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf plugin
go	Enable building dev-lang/go code/examples
rav1e	Use media-video/rav1e for AVIF encoding
x265	Use media-libs/x265 for HEIF encoding

libjxl

gdk-pixbuf	Build a gdk-pixbuf loader

liblastfm

fingerprint	Build the lastfm-fingerprint library

libmp4v2

utils	Install command-line utilities

libmypaint

gegl	Add support for media-libs/gegl

libopenglrecorder

openh264	Enable H.264 support using media-libs/openh264
vpx	Enable VP8/VP9 codec support via media-libs/libvpx

libopenshot

babl	Enable media-libs/babl support
opencv	Enable media-libs/opencv support

libpagemaker

tools	Build command line file format conversion tools

libpano13

suitesparse	Use Sparse Levenberg Marquardt algorithm instead of dense Levenberg Marquardt algorithm

libplacebo

glslang	Use dev-util/glslang to compile GLSL
lcms	Add support for color management via media-libs/lcms
shaderc	Use media-libs/shaderc to compile GLSL
xxhash	Use dev-libs/xxhash to speed up internal hashing

libpng

apng	support unofficial APNG (Animated PNG) spec

libprojectm

gles2	Provide support for OpenGL ES 2 and 3

libpulse

asyncns	Use libasyncns for asynchronous name resolution.
doc	Build the doxygen-described API documentation.
glib	Add support to dev-libs/glib-based mainloop for the libpulse client library, to allow using libpulse on glib-based programs.

libsdl

joystick	Control joystick support (disable at your own risk)
sound	Control audio support (disable at your own risk)
tslib	Build with tslib support for touchscreen devices
video	Control video support (disable at your own risk)

libsdl2

fcitx4	Enable support for app-i18n/fcitx 4
gles1	include OpenGL ES 1.0 support
gles2	include OpenGL ES 2.0 support
haptic	Enable the haptic (force feedback) subsystem
ibus	Enable support for app-i18n/ibus
joystick	Control joystick support (disable at your own risk)
kms	Build the KMSDRM video driver
pipewire	Enable support for the media-video/pipewire audio backend
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend
sound	Control audio support (disable at your own risk)
video	Control video support (disable at your own risk)

libshumate

sysprof	Enable sysprof-capture support for profiling

libtgvoip

dsp	Enable signal processing (echo cancellation, noise suppression, and automatic gain control)

libva-compat

drm	Enables VA/DRM API support.
egl	Enables EGL support.

libva-intel-driver

hybrid	Enable support for hybrid vaapi hardware acceleration on Intel Haswell and newer architectures

libva-intel-media-driver

redistributable	Install redistributable media kernel binaries (no source code) files (primarily needed for video encoding support)

libvisio

tools	Build conversion tools

libvmaf

embed-models	Compile default vmaf models into the library (needs app-editors/vim-core)

libvpx

highbitdepth	Enable 10 and 12 bit support for VP9.
postproc	Enable additional post processing filters

libwebp

swap-16bit-csp	Enable byte swapping for 16 bit colorspace

libzmf

tools	Build conversion tools

lilv

tools	Build command line utilities

lsp-plugins

lv2	Build lv2 plugins
vst	Support LinuxVST plugins

lv2

plugins	Enables examples plugins.

lvtk

gtk2	Enable x11-libs/gtk+:2 based GUI support
tools	Compile and install ttl2c tool

mesa

d3d9	Enable Direct 3D9 API through Nine state tracker. Can be used together with patched wine.
gles1	Enable GLESv1 support.
gles2	Enable GLESv2 support.
llvm	Enable LLVM backend for Gallium3D.
lm-sensors	Enable Gallium HUD lm-sensors support.
opencl	Enable the Rusticl Gallium OpenCL state tracker.
osmesa	Build the Mesa library for off-screen rendering.
proprietary-codecs	Enable codecs for patent-encumbered audio and video formats.
vdpau	Enable the VDPAU acceleration interface for the Gallium3D Video Layer.
vulkan-overlay	Build vulkan-overlay-layer which displays Frames Per Second and other statistics
wayland	Enable support for dev-libs/wayland
xa	Enable the XA (X Acceleration) API for Gallium3D.
zink	Enable the Zink OpenGL-over-Vulkan Gallium driver

mesa-amber

gles1	Enable GLESv1 support.
gles2	Enable GLESv2 support.
wayland	Enable support for dev-libs/wayland

mlt

frei0r	Build the module for media-plugins/frei0r-plugins
opencv	Build motion tracking module using media-libs/opencv
python	Build SWIG bindings for Python
rtaudio	Builds rtaudio consumer for native audio support on multiple platforms
rubberband	Enable audio pitch-shifting using media-libs/rubberband
vidstab	Enabled video stabilization with media-libs/vidstab

netpbm

rle	Build converters for the RLE format (utah raster toolkit)

oneVPL

drm	Build with DRM support
experimental	Build dispatcher with experimental APIs
tools	Build decode/encode/analyse/inspect tools

oneVPL-cpu

experimental	Enable experimental API
openh264	Use media-libs/openh264 instead of media-libs/x264

openal

pipewire	Enable support for the media-video/pipewire audio backend
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend

opencolorio

apps	Build the OCIO command line apps

opencv

contrib	Install user contributed scripts from opencv_contrib (Experimental!)
contribcvv	CVV module requires Qt5
contribdnn	DNN module contrib requires tiny dnn
contribfreetype	Enable Drawing UTF-8 strings with freetype/harfbuzz
contribhdf	HDF module requires sci-libs/hdf5
contribovis	Enable Ogre vision module support
contribsfm	SFM module requires eigen, gflags, and glog
contribxfeatures2d	Enables xfeatures2d and autodownload of samples in contrib
cuda	Enable NVIDIA Cuda computations support (Experimental!)
dnnsamples	Download dnn caffeemodel samples
download	Enable download during cmake configure
eigen	Enable usage of dev-cpp/eigen for computations
features2d	Enable features2d module
gdal	Enable support for sci-libs/gdal library
gflags	Use Google's C++ argument parsing library
glog	Use Google's C++ loggin library
gtk3	Enable x11-libs/gtk+:3 support
lto	Build using Link Time Optimizations (LTO)
opencl	Add support for OpenCL
opencvapps	Enable compilation with opencvapps
tesseract	Use Google's OCR Engine
testprograms	Build and install programs for testing OpenCV (performance)
vtk	Build new 3D visualization module viz based on sci-libs/vtk

openexr

large-stack	Enables code to take advantage of large stack support.
utils	Build several binary tools for verifying and manipulating EXR files.

openh264

plugin	Install the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) for use with Mozilla packages
utils	Install the CLI encoder and decoder utilities

openimageio

dicom	Enable DICOM medical image file support via sci-libs/dcmtk
opencv	Enable OpenCV support via media-libs/opencv
openvdb	Enable OpenVDB support via media-gfx/openvdb
ptex	Enable Ptex texture mapping system file support via media-libs/ptex
qt5	Build iv with Qt5
qt6	Build iv with Qt6
tools	Build the command-line tools

opensubdiv

cuda	Enable NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit support through dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit
opencl	Enable OpenCL support through virtual/opencl
ptex	Adds support for faster per-face texture mapping through media-libs/ptex
tbb	Enable multithreading with the Intel Threads Building Blocks through dev-cpp/tbb
tutorials	Install the tutorials

opus

custom-modes	Enable non-Opus modes, e.g. 44.1 kHz and 2^n frames

opusfile

fixed-point	Enable fixed-point arithmetic operations
float	Enable floating point arithmetic operations
http	Enable http connections

osl

partio	Use media-libs/partio
qt5	Build the osltoy binary

phonon

designer	Install plugin for dev-qt/designer
vlc	Install VLC Phonon backend

phonon-gstreamer

network	Enable network streaming support via libsoup

portmidi

test-programs	Install various example programs

quarter

designer	Install plugin for dev-qt/designer
qthelp	Build API documentation in QtHelp format

raptor

json	Enable support for JSON parsing

raspberrypi-userland-bin

hardfp	Use armv6 hardfp ABI

roc-toolkit

tools	Install helper tools like roc-conv, roc-recv, roc-send

rubberband

jni	Enables building of Java Native Interface library
lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2
programs	Builds also executable applications
vamp	Enables vamp plugins support (Audio analysing plugins)

sdl-mixer

fluidsynth	Use media-sound/fluidsynth for MIDI support
midi	basic support for MIDI files
mod	basic support for MOD files
playtools	Install playwave and playmus tools (useful for testing)
smpeg	Use media-libs/smpeg for MP3 support
wav	support WAVE files

sdl2-image

webp	support loading WEBP images

sdl2-mixer

fluidsynth	Use media-sound/fluidsynth for MIDI support
midi	basic support for MIDI files
mod	basic support for MOD files
playtools	Install playwave and playmus tools (useful for testing)
tremor	enable OGG Vorbis music via libtremor
wav	support WAVE files

sdl2-ttf

harfbuzz	Use media-libs/harfbuzz for enhanced font rendering

sdl_audiolib

fluidsynth	Enable support for MIDI via media-sound/fluidsynth
mpg123	Enable support for mp3 decoding via media-sound/mpg123
openmpt	OpenMPT decoder via media-libs/libopenmpt
soxr	Enable SoX Resampler support via media-libs/soxr
wildmidi	Enable support for MIDI via media-sound/wildmidi

sge

image	enable sdl-image support

spandsp

fixed-point	Enable fixed point support

speex

utils	Enables speex commandline utilities (speexenc, speexdec).
vbr	Enable VBR support.

suil

gtk2	Enable GTK2 based GUI support

svgalib

kernel-helper	Build the helper kernel module

tremor

low-accuracy	enable 32bit only multiply operations

urt

tools	Install tools

vips

deprecated	Enable deprecated components
fits	Enable support for the Flexible Image Transport System data format using sci-libs/cfitsio
gsf	Enable support for structured files using gnome-extra/libgsf
imagequant	Enable support for Image Quantization using media-gfx/libimagequant
jpegxl	Enable support for the JPEG-XL image format using media-libs/libjxl
matio	Enable support for matlab files using sci-libs/matio
pango	Enable support for text rendering using x11-libs/pango

vulkan-loader

layers	Include the vulkan layers

waffle

egl	Enable EGL support
gbm	Enable support for the Generic Buffer Manager (gbm)
wayland	Enable Wayland support

x264

interlaced	enable interlaced encoding support, this can decrease encoding speed by up to 2%
opencl	Add support for OpenCL.
pic	disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly

x265

10bit	Add support for producing 10bits HEVC.
12bit	Add support for producing 12bits HEVC.
numa	Build with support for NUMA nodes.
pic	Disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly

xine-lib

bluray	Enable playback of Blu-ray filesystems using media-libs/libbluray
dav1d	Enable support for media-libs/dav1d AV1 decoder
dxr3	Enable support for DXR3 mpeg acceleration cards.
flac	Build the media-libs/flac based FLAC demuxer and decoder. This flag is not needed for playing FLAC content, neither standalone nor in Ogg container (OggFLAC), but might have better support for exotic features like 24-bit samples or 96kHz sample rates.
gtk	Build the gdkpixbuf-based image decoder plugin.
imagemagick	Build the ImageMagick-based image decoder plugin.
mad	Build the media-libs/libmad based mp3 decoder. This mp3 decoder has superior support compared to the one coming from FFmpeg that is used as a fallback. If you experience any bad behaviour with mp3 files (skipping, distorted sound) make sure you enabled this USE flag.
mmap	Use mmap() function while reading file from local disks. Using mmap() will use more virtual memory space, but leaves to the Kernel the task of caching the file's data. mmap() access should be faster, but might misbehave if the device where the file resides in is removed during playback.
nfs	Allow accessing NFS shares via net-fs/libnfs.
sftp	Use net-libs/libssh2 to access SFTP servers.
truetype	Use media-libs/freetype for font rendering and media-libs/fontconfig for font discovery. Enabling this USE flag will allow OSD (such as subtitles) to use more advanced font and to more easily select which font to use. The support for TrueType fonts in xine-lib is still experimental, and might not be as good looking as the bitmap fonts used with this USE flag disabled.
vdr	Build the VDR plugin
vidix	Enable support for vidix video output.
vis	Adds support for SIMD optimizations for UltraSPARC processors.
vpx	Enable VP8 codec support via media-libs/libvpx.
xvmc	Enable support for XVideo Motion Compensation (accelerated mpeg playback).

xvid

pic	disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly

zita-resampler

tools	Install zresample and zretune tools

zmusic

fluidsynth	Enable support for MIDI via media-sound/fluidsynth
mpg123	Enable support for MPEG audio playback via media-sound/mpg123

media-plugins

alsa-plugins

arcam_av	Enables Arcam AV control plugin
mix	Enables upmix and vdownmix plugin
usb_stream	Enables usb_stream plugin

audacious-plugins

ampache	Support controlling audacious via ampache
bs2b	Enable Bauer Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural headphone filter
cue	Support CUE sheets using the libcue library
fluidsynth	Support FluidSynth as MIDI synth backend
gme	Support various gaming console music formats
http	Support HTTP streams through neon
openmpt	Add support for OpenMPT
pipewire	Build the PipeWire output plugin
scrobbler	Build with scrobbler/LastFM submission support
sid	Build with SID (Commodore 64 Audio) support
soxr	Build with SoX Resampler support
speedpitch	Enable speed/pitch effects
streamtuner	Build the streamtuner plugin

calf

experimental	Enable experimental features/plugins
lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2

frei0r-plugins

facedetect	Enables building of facedetect plugin, which depends on media-libs/opencv
scale0tilt	Enables building of scale0tilt and vectorscope plugins, which depend on media-libs/gavl

gkrellmpc

threads	Use separate thread to init connection (unsafe)

grilo-plugins

chromaprint	Enable Chromaprint support
daap	Enable dmap support through net-libs/libdmapsharing
flickr	Enable Flickr support
freebox	Build support for viewing TV channels using Freebox
gnome-online-accounts	Enable net-libs/gnome-online-accounts support
thetvdb	Build support for thetvdb.com
tracker	Build support for content discovery using the app-misc/tracker indexer
youtube	Build support for YouTube content discovery using dev-libs/libgdata

gst-plugins-gtk

egl	Enable EGL platform usage
gles2	Enable gtkglsink OpenGL sink based on GLESv2 API
opengl	Enable gtkglsink OpenGL sink based on desktop OpenGL API

gst-plugins-meta

http	Enable http streaming via net-libs/libsoup
libvisual	Enable visualization effects via media-libs/libvisual
vpx	Enables vp8 codec support using libvpx, required to play some HTML5 videos

gst-plugins-vaapi

drm	Enable DRM renderer
egl	Enable EGL support
gles2	Enable GLESv2 and GLESv3 support

imlib2_loaders

xcf	Enable XCF image loader

ir_lv2

tools	Build convert4chan tool

vdr-burn

dvdarchive	DMH DVD - Archive

vdr-cdplayer

cdparanoia	Enable cdparanoia (audio CD ripper) support

vdr-dvbapi

dvbcsa	use media-libs/libdvbcsa free implementation of the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm

vdr-epgsearch

conflictcheckonly	install the "conflictcheckonly" vdr-plugin
epgsearchonly	install the "epgsearchonly" vdr-plugin
quicksearch	install the "quicksearch" vdr-plugin
tre	Add support for unlimited fuzzy searching with help of dev-libs/tre library

vdr-streamdev

client	Compile the VDR plugin vdr-streamdev-client that can connect a vdr to a remote streamdev-server instance
server	Compile the VDR plugin vdr-streamdev-server that allows remote systems to access the vdr using streamdev-specific VTP and HTTP protocol

vdr-vdrmanager

stream	Add support for streaming Video to Android client

vdr-weatherng

dxr3	enables lower osd color depth for dxr3 cards

vdr-xineliboutput

bluray	Enable BluRay metadata support through media-libs/libbluray
cec	Enable CEC support through dev-libs/libcec
vdr	Compile the vdr output plugin to use local or remote xine as output
xine	Compile the xine input plugin for displaying vdr video and OSD

media-radio

ax25-tools

X	Enable some X based configuration tools.

chirp

radioreference	pull in optional deps for query of radioreference

direwolf

hamlib	Enables support by the Hamlib amateur radio rig control library

fldigi

hamlib	Enables support by the Hamlib amateur radio rig control library to get/set frequency and mode of the ham radio in use

tucnak

hamlib	Enables support by the Hamlib amateur radio rig control library to get/set frequency and mode of the ham radio

unixcw

ncurses	Enables building the curses based morse code tutor program 'cwcp'.

xastir

geotiff	Install geotiff support. Allows using USGS DRG topo maps or other types of geotiff mapes/images

media-sound

abcde

aiff	Enable support for Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) output encoding
id3tag	Support ID3, ID3v2 tagging of audio files
mac	Enable support for Monkey's Audio files
normalize	Add support for normalizing audio file volume levels
replaygain	Support for Replay Gain metadata, for relative volume adjustment

abcm2ps

pango	Use the pango library to render fonts with non-latin characters

alsa-utils

bat	install basic audio tester (BAT) util
libsamplerate	install utils that use libsamplerate (e.g. alsaloop)
ncurses	install utils that use ncurses (e.g. alsamixer)

alsaplayer

id3tag	Enables ID3 tagging with id3tag library

amsynth

dssi	Enable support for DSSI Soft Synth Interface
lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2
nsm	Build support for Non Session Manager
vst	Build VST plug-in

apulse

sdk	Install PulseAudio headers and pkg-config files. Be aware apulse is not a full PulseAudio replacement by design and some functionality may be missing.

aqualung

ifp	Enable support for iRiver iFP portable audio players
lua	Enable support for programmable title formatting with dev-lang/lua
mac	Enable support for decoding Monkey's Audio files
podcast	Enable podcast support
systray	Enable system tray support

ardour

phonehome	contact ardour.org at startup for new announcements

ario

idle	Enable experimental support for MPD's idle command to reduce bandwidth and cpu usage, requires MPD 0.14

asunder

mac	Support for creation of Monkey's Audio files (APE)

audacity

audiocom	Enable integrated uploading to audio.com
id3tag	Enables ID3 tagging with id3tag library
lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2
mpg123	Use media-sound/mpg123 instead of media-libs/libmad for decoding MPEG decoding
portmidi	Enable support for MIDI via media-libs/portmidi
portmixer	Enable the internal portmixer feature
portsmf	Enable support for Portable Standard Midi File Library
sbsms	Enables sbsms library support for slower, more accurate pitch and tempo changing
twolame	Enables twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder)
vamp	Enables vamp plugins support (Audio analysing plugins)
vst	Enable VST plugin support

audiotools

cue	Enable CUE sheet support
dvda	Enable DVD-Audio support
twolame	Enable twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder)

bluez-alsa

aptx	aptX (HD) over Bluetooth (many Android compatible headphones)
hcitop	Enable top-like monitoring tool for HCI
ldac	Enable support for AOSP media-libs/libldac dispatcher
mpg123	Enable support for MPEG audio playback via media-sound/mpg123
ofono	Enable ofono elephony support

cadence

a2jmidid	Enables support for legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system

cantata

cdio	Use dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia for CD support (instead of cdparanoia)
http-server	Enable internal HTTP server to play non-MPD files
replaygain	Enable ReplayGain support, for relative volume adjustments
streaming	Enable playback of MPD HTTP streams using LibVLC (media-video/vlc)

cava

pipewire	Enable support for the media-video/pipewire backend
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend

clementine

box	Enable filesharing via Box.com
dropbox	Enable Dropbox support
googledrive	Enable Google Drive support
lastfm	Use liblastfm for fetching song info, scrobbling and radio streams
moodbar	Enable moodbar support
projectm	Build with ProjectM visualization
seafile	Enable support for seafile: a file sync service
skydrive	Enable Skydrive support
wiimote	Enable support for Wii remote

cmus

cdio	Use libcdio for CD support
discid	Enable reading the ID of the inserted CD
elogind	Enable MPRIS support via sys-auth/elogind
pidgin	Install support script for net-im/pidgin
sndio	Add support for media-sound/sndio
systemd	Enable MPRIS support via sys-apps/systemd
tremor	Use libivorbis from media-libs/tremor instead of media-libs/libvorbis

csound

beats	Build the beats score frontend
double-precision	Use double-precision floating point for audio samples
dssi	Build the DSSI opcodes
portmidi	Build the PortMIDI I/O module
samples	Install the HRTF datafiles for use with hrtfmove, hrtfmove2, hrtfstat, hrtfearly, and hrtfreverb
utils	Build stand-alone executables for utilities that can also be used via `csound -U`

darkice

twolame	Build with twolame support

deadbeef

converter	File format converter
cover	Support for cover art
hotkeys	Keyboard shortcuts support
lastfm	last.fm/AudioScrobbler protocol support
libretro	libretro resampling plugin
libsamplerate	Support the Secret Rabbit Code resampler
notify	Desktop notifications support
nullout	Dummy output driver
pipewire	Pipewire output plugin
sc68	Atari ST and Amiga music player
shellexec	Define custom shell commands that can be called on tracks
supereq	Enable equalizer

denemo

alsa	Enable alsa support through media-libs/alsa-lib
aubio	Enable media-libs/aubio support
jack	Enable jack support through virtual/jack
portaudio	Enable support for media-libs/portaudio
portmidi	Enable support for the media-libs/portmidi backend
rubberband	Enable support for media-libs/rubberband

dir2ogg

mac	Add support for decoding Monkey's Audio files
wma	Add support for wma files through mplayer

drumstick

fluidsynth	Enable support for media-sound/fluidsynth
network	Build Network RT backend

easyeffects

calf	Enable use of media-plugins/calf for adding various FX
doc	Install packages needed to display built-in user documentation
mda-lv2	Enable use of media-plugins/mda-lv2 for the loudness FX
zamaudio	Enable use of media-plugins/zam-plugins for the maximizer FX

easytag

nautilus	Build gnome-base/nautilus extension

ecasound

lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2
oil	Use dev-libs/liboil for inner loop optimizations

elisa

mpris	Enable MPRIS support
vlc	Use media-video/vlc for output rather than dev-qt/qtmultimedia

exaile

scrobbler	Enable audioscrobbler/last.fm support

fapg

xspf	Enable support for saving XSPF playlists.

fluidsynth

network	enable network support (requires BSD sockets)
pipewire	enable media-video/pipewire support

gimmix

cover	Enable cover art fetching
lyrics	Enable lyric fetching

guitarix

lv2	Build lv2 plugins
nsm	Build NSM (Non Session Manager) support
standalone	Build standalone application

herrie

http	Enable http streaming
xspf	Enable support for reading and saving XSPF playlists

hydrogen

archive	Use libarchive instead of libtar
portmidi	Add portmidi support

jack-audio-connection-kit

pam	Add basic realtime configuration via sys-auth/realtime-base

jack-example-tools

jack-net	Build jack_net_* example clients
jack-netsource	Build jack_netsource for configuring network sources
zalsa	Build the zalsa internal client using media-libs/zita-resampler

jack2

classic	Enable building of jackd
metadata	Enable metadata API
pam	Add basic realtime configuration via sys-auth/realtime-base
tools	Pull basic tools (e.g. jack_lsp/connect) from media-sound/jack-example-tools

kasts

vlc	Enable media-video/vlc backend

kid3

acoustid	Build acoustic fingerprinting plugin using media-libs/chromaprint
mpris	Enable support for MPRIS2 interface using dev-qt/qtdbus

klick

rubberband	Enable rubberband support

lame

frontend	Build and install the 'lame' executable frontend to lame libraries.
mp3rtp	Build the mp3-to-RTP streaming utility. **UNSUPPORTED**

liblc3

tools	Enable extra tools

lilypond

guile2	Enable experimental support for Guile 2

linux-show-player

midi	Allow cues to send, or trigger on, MIDI messages
timecode	Support the sending of time code of running audio files over ArtNet, for instance to trigger cues in lighting-control software on lighting desks

linuxsampler

lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2
sf2	Add support for SoundFont 2 sound bank files

lmms

fluidsynth	Enables Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis plugin.
libgig	Enables GIG player plugin.
soundio	Enables libsoundio support.
stk	Enables STK Mallet plugin.
vst	Enables the VeSTige plugin to run VST plugins through Wine.

mangler

espeak	Text to speech engine
g15	Logitech g15 lcd support

mixxx

hid	Enable HID controller support
keyfinder	Enable musical key detection support via media-libs/libkeyfinder
lv2	Add support for Ladspa V2 via media-libs/lilv
modplug	Add libmodplug support
qtkeychain	Enable Secure credential storage support via dev-libs/qtkeychain
shout	Enable broadcasting support via media-libs/libshout

moc

cache	Enable tags caching support
sid	Build with SID (Commodore 64 Audio) support
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend
tremor	Build vorbis support using an integer implementation of the vorbis library (media-libs/tremor)

mp3blaster

sid	Build with SID (Commodore 64 Audio) support

mpd

cdio	Use libcdio for ISO9660 parsing support
chromaprint	Enable ChromaPrint / AcoustID support
cue	Enable CUE sheet support
curl	Support for web stream listening
eventfd	Use the eventfd function in MPD's event loop
faad	Use external faad library for AAC decoding
fifo	Support writing audio to a FIFO
fluidsynth	Enables Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (discouraged)
gme	Enables support for media-libs/game-music-emu for playing various video game music formats.
id3tag	Support for ID3 tags
inotify	Use the Linux kernel inotify subsystem to notice changes to mpd music library
lame	Support for MP3 streaming via Icecast2
libmpdclient	Enable support for remote mpd databases
libsoxr	Enable the libsoxr resampler
mpg123	Enable support for mp3 decoding over media-sound/mpg123
network	Enables network streaming support
nfs	Enable support for the Network File System
openmpt	OpenMPT decoder plugin
pipe	Support writing audio to a pipe
pipewire	PipeWire support
qobuz	Build plugin to access qobuz
recorder	Enables output plugin for recording radio streams
sid	Build with SID (Commodore 64 Audio) support
signalfd	Use the signalfd function in MPD's event loop
snapcast	Snapcast audio plugin
sndio	Enable support for the media-sound/sndio backend
soundcloud	Build plugin to access soundcloud
systemd	Enable support for systemd socket activation
twolame	Support twolame MPEG-2 encoding
webdav	Enable using music fr