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sys-libs/
libcap-ng

POSIX 1003.1e capabilities

https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/

Available Versions

Version amd64 x86 alpha arm arm64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc
0.8.1 : 0 ~amd64 ~x86 ~alpha ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc
0.8 : 0 ~amd64 ~x86 ~alpha ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc
0.7.11 : 0 amd64 x86 ~alpha arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc
0.7.10 : 0 amd64 x86 ~alpha arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc

Masks

  • Breaks consumers like gnome-base/gnome-keyring and net-fs/cifs-utils See https://bugs.gentoo.org/755596
    Affected packages
    =sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.8.1
    Author/Date
    Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> (2020-11-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC)

Package Metadata

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  • Full description
    The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with POSIX capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap library. It includes utilities that can analyse all currently running applications and print out any capabilities and whether or not it has an open ended bounding set.
  • USE flags
    Global Use Flags python_targets (Use Expand)
  • License
    LGPL-2.1
  • Maintainer(s)
    Gentoo Base System