Re: [gentoo-user] Systray app notifying of updated packages?

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:02:27AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote

> Does anyone know an app sitting in the systray sending/popping
> notifications when installed packages can be updated?

  I'm not aware of any.  That could be done under Gentoo, via scripting,
if someone is willing to put in the work.  You would need a background
process running "emerge --sync" *AS ROOT* on a daily basis, possibly a
cron job.  Then it would have to be followed by

emerge -pv --deep --update --changed-use @world > updates.txt

Then parse the contents of updates.txt for a list of what's ready to
update.

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