</maintainer>
<use>
<flag name="epydoc">Build html API documentation with epydoc.</flag>
- <flag name="ipc">Use inter-process communication between portage and running ebuilds.</flag>
- <flag name="native-extensions">Build native extensions. Cross-compilation is not supported.</flag>
- <flag name="xattr">Preserve extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata) when installing files. Usually only required for hardened systems.</flag>
+ <flag name="ipc">Use inter-process communication between portage and
+ running ebuilds.
+ </flag>
+ <flag name="native-extensions">
+ Compiles native "C" extensions (speedups, instead of using python
+ backup code). Currently includes xattr and libc-locales.
+ This should only be temporarily disabled for some bootstrapping
+ operations, etc.. Cross-compilation is not supported.
+ </flag>
+ <flag name="xattr">Preserve extended attributes (filesystem-stored metadata)
+ when installing files. Usually only required for hardened systems.
+ </flag>
</use>
</pkgmetadata>