The current stable releases for ncurses on amd64 is sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99. The ebuild metadata is missing the "minimal" flag --- however, the package still adheres to this flag. # equery u ncurses [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99: U I - - abi_x86_32 : 32-bit (x86) libraries - - ada : Add bindings for the ADA programming language + + cxx : Build support for C++ (bindings, extra libraries, code generation, ...) - - gpm : Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) - - static-libs : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well - - tinfo : Build curses library (libncurses) sep from the low-level terminfo library (libtinfo) -- usually needed only for binary packages -- but it is binary compatible in either mode + + unicode : Add support for Unicode With +minimal USE flag set, the package does not include /usr/share/terminfo/*. With -minimal USE flag set, the above directory is populated. More recent ebuilds do not have this issue: the USE flag minimal is present in their metadata. Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.2.24 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/systemd, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.3.3-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.3.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-4460_CPU_@_3.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 32679688 total, 2222908 free KiB Swap: 58615700 total, 58615700 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 06:15:02 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p39 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p39::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.18.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.21-r1::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://mirror.internode.on.net/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_AU.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="aio amd64 bash-completion berkdb bindist bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv minimal mmx mmxext modules multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre readline seccomp session sse sse2 ssl symlink systemd tcpd udev unicode vim-syntax xattr zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99 is a dummy package that was added to help resolve a broken slotmove. The current stable of the real package (which is also installed) indeed has the flag: $ equery u sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5 [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5: U I + + abi_x86_32 : 32-bit (x86) libraries - - ada : Add bindings for the ADA programming language + + cxx : Build support for C++ (bindings, extra libraries, code generation, ...) - - 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 - - doc : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally - - gpm : Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver) - - minimal : Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) - - static-libs : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well - - tinfo : Build curses library (libncurses) sep from the low-level terminfo library (libtinfo) -- usually needed only for binary packages -- but it is binary compatible in either mode - - trace : Enable test trace() support in ncurses calls + + unicode : Add support for Unicode
