Hello All,

I've reinstalled gentoo and figured out that the installation steps
from stage1 changed a little bit (for example, with 2006.1 I had to
recompile perl before doing bootstrap, because of some missing
dependencies). Later, even reusing my old /etc/make.conf file, I've
noticed that glibc wasn't using nptl and nptlonly flags...

.... I didn't care too much, because needed my computer back as soon as
possible, thought to set that later and recompile eventually with
"emerge world -DN".

By the way later I noticed that each time I start gnome-terminal or
firefox, several instances of the application are fired at once, and
even skype starts 5 instances of itself. Googling a little bit, it
seemed to me that multithreading applications (especially the ones
using some Qt libriaries, have this behaviour)... therefore I thought
to say goodbye to old linuxthreads and move to NPTL which were doing
greately their job previously.

But! I'm still unable to figure out why flags are still not used!!!

### /etc/make.conf ###
[...]
USE="nptl nptlonly"
[...]
### /etc/portage/packages.use ###
[...]
sys-libs/glibc nptl nptlonly userlocales
[...]

but still I have

[ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.5 USE="nls -build -glibc-compat20 -
glibc-omitfp -hardened (-multilib) (-nptl) (-nptlonly) -profile (-
selinux)" 0 kB

I tried to find documentation regarding parentheses usage in portage
and emerge, but still did not find anything useful to explain such
behavior. Can someone enlight me?

Thanks, guys!