The user has noticed that the gstreamer USE flag is missing from the gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.12.1-r2 ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.At a console type: emerge =gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.12.1-r2 -atv 2. 3. Actual Results: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.12.1-r2 -acpi +apm -debug +hal +ipv6 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n Quitting. Expected Results: The gstreamer USE flag is not available for this particular ebuild. the line: "[ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.12.1-r2 -acpi +apm -debug +hal +ipv6" should have the USE flag enabled/disabled. The user noticed that previous versions of gnome-applets had this flag. The user believes that the missing USE flag may be responsible for his Gnome's volume applet to be missing. shadow ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
As of 2.12.0, gstreamer is integrated within GNOME, and is required to build.
