[gentoo-user] eix-diff output meaning

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Howdy,

It's cold so I booted up my old rig, and NAS box, and was updating the
OS for a little extra heat.  I was looking at the output of eix-diff
that is at the end of eix-sync.  I'm used to seeing U, N and such but
noticed something new today.  Some, llvm for example, has a "*"
included.  Like this: 


[*U]  >> llvm-core/clang (19.1.4(19/19.1)): C language family frontend
for LLVM
[*U]  >> llvm-core/clang-common (19.1.4): Common files shared between
multiple slots of clang
[*U]  >> llvm-core/clang-runtime (19.1.4(19)): Meta-ebuild for clang
runtime libraries
[*U]  >> llvm-core/clang-toolchain-symlinks (19(19)): Symlinks to use
Clang on GCC-free system
[*N]  >> llvm-core/libclc (19.1.4): OpenCL C library
[*U]  >> llvm-core/lld (19.1.4(19/19.1)): The LLVM linker (link editor)
[*U]  >> llvm-core/lld-toolchain-symlinks (19(19)): Symlinks to use LLD
on binutils-free system
[*N]  >> llvm-core/lldb (19.1.4(0/19.1)): The LLVM debugger
[*U]  >> llvm-core/llvm (19.1.4(19/19.1)): Low Level Virtual Machine
[*U]  >> llvm-core/llvm-common (19.1.4): Common files shared between
multiple slots of LLVM
[*U]  >> llvm-core/llvm-toolchain-symlinks (19(19)): Symlinks to use
LLVM on binutils-free system
[*U]  >> llvm-core/llvmgold (19): LLVMgold plugin symlink for autoloading
[*U]  >> llvm-runtimes/compiler-rt (19.1.4(19)): Compiler runtime
library for clang (built-in part)
[*U]  >> llvm-runtimes/compiler-rt-sanitizers (19.1.4(19)): Compiler
runtime libraries for clang (sanitizers & xray)
[*N]  >> llvm-runtimes/libcxx (19.1.4): New implementation of the C++
standard library, targeting C++11
[*N]  >> llvm-runtimes/libcxxabi (19.1.4): Low level support for a
standard C++ library
[*N]  >> llvm-runtimes/libunwind (19.1.4): C++ runtime stack unwinder
from LLVM


I googled, checked the Gentoo wiki and even looked up some pages about
diff itself, thinking it would spit out the same type of stuff and
explain what that means.  I found explanations of some output stuff but
nothing about the "*" bit. 

Anyone know what that is about?  What does the "*" mean?  Is it unique
to Gentoo? 

Thanks. 

Dale

:-)  :-)