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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Meaning of bold/regular font in output from emerge
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:39:42
Message-Id: 200709201524.14016.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Meaning of bold/regular font in output from emerge by "Markus Schönhaber"
1 On Thursday 20 September 2007, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
2 > Hi all!
3 >
4 > Since portage 2.1.3.9 I sometimes see package names printed with
5 > different colors and fonts in the output in emerge --ask ...
6 > Example:
7 >
8 > # emerge --ask --update --deep world
9 >
10 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
11 >
12 > Calculating world dependencies... done!
13 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/debianutils-2.23.1 [2.22.1]
14 > [ebuild N ] dev-perl/File-Which-0.05
15 > [ebuild U ] media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.17-r1 [1.0.17]
16 > [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.20 [1.16]
17 > [ebuild U ] net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p3 [4.2.4_p0]
18 > [ebuild U ] dev-util/git-1.5.2.5 [1.5.1.6]
19 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtksourceview-1.8.5-r1 [1.8.5]
20 > [ebuild U ] app-office/openoffice-2.3.0 [2.2.1] USE="-xulrunner%"
21 >
22 > In the above output ntp, git and openoffice are shown in light green
23 > and boldface while all other packages are shown in a darker green and
24 > a regular font face.
25 > What do the differences in font weight and colour tell me?
26
27 bold entries are in your world file
28 no-bold are not
29
30 alan
31
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34 Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
35 Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
36
37 Alan McKinnon
38 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
39 +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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