When I use emerge -pv gnome-light, instead of seeing which USE flags are enabled, I get a [empty/missing/bad digest] message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -pv gnome-light 2. 3. Actual Results: I got this as output (with dependancies left out): [ebuild N ] ... [ebuild N ] ... [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-light-2.6 [empty/missing/bad digest] Expected Results: I should have been able to review which USE flags were enabled/availabe. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7 -gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu x/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa gtk2 java perl truetype x86"
This is OK. gnome-light is a meta-package consisting only of dependencies that need to be merged to have a lightweight installation of the GNOME desktop. It doesn't install any files, so the digest file is empty and it doesn't have any USE flags.
