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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:50:45
Message-Id: 200707111943.41879.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold? by Ryan Curtin
1 On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:28:17 Ryan Curtin wrote:
2 > Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I ran my semi-weekly 'emerge
3 > -uavD world', some packages were given in bold. For a while I thought
4 > perhaps they were more system-critical packages, but upon further
5 > investigation I could find no sort of pattern to which packages were
6 > being bolded and which weren't. Then I thought maybe it was a local
7 > bug, but soon thereafter some of my friends noticed the same thing in
8 > their portage outputs.
9 >
10 > Does anyone know why this behavior occurs? To me it doesn't appear to
11 > be providing any sort of useful information and only serves to confuse
12 > me.
13
14 Packages in bold are in your world file.
15
16 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142473
17
18 --
19 Bo Andresen

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold? Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold? Ryan Curtin <ryan@××××××××.com>