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Apparently, though unproven, at 21:51 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Mick did opine |
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thusly: |
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> > Well perhaps it's nitpicking, but I like my systems as lean as possible. |
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> > I almost never emerge anything without -av options, just so I can say |
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> > "no" and edit package.use if need be. It rarely causes more than a few |
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> > extra seconds to be consumed, since my needs don't change terribly often. |
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> > Depends on how one uses the system, I suppose... |
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> Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last KDE |
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> upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes |
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> (scanner, rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages and |
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> libraries. Other flag changes may well have added packages that I didn't |
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> need, but didn't have the time to go through the lot at the time. |
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Is your emerge output colorized? |
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USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside [ebuild ] |
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at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being able to pick out |
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the few new things that really stand out that way. |
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