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Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did |
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opine thusly: |
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> On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last |
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> > > KDE 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 |
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> > > and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added packages that I |
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> > > didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through the lot at the |
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> > > 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 |
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> > [ebuild ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being |
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> > able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way. |
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> It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are |
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> changes. |
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I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not ask |
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myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do I need to |
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tweak them?" |
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I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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