Like we have B (blocks) N (New), it seems that now there is an S as well. I've seen it popup now & then...what does it stand for? Is it something permanent, if so, I guess the docs need to be updated. For example : # emerge -pv =gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r8 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild S ] sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r8 -build -doc -ultra1 0 kB # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /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 digest distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/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 aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cscope ctype cups curl directfb divx4linux docdvd encode esd ethereal evo exif f77 fbcon flac flash foomaticdb ftp gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb jabber java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad man mbox memlimit mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses network nls odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png posix python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang snmp sockets spell sse ssl svg svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb vhosts videos wmf x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib"
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