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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:52:39AM +0000, Stroller wrote |
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> You claim to be "a control freak" but you seem to be doing this to |
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> avoid the "chore" of properly inspecting USE flags each time you |
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> emerge. If you `emerge --pretend` before every update you make, |
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> you would see what's changed! What's the point in running `emerge |
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> --pretend` if you don't look at it!?!? Further to the aside in |
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> the email I sent a minute or two ago, all the changed USE flags in |
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> Portage's output show up in bright yellow or green, BTW, so they're |
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> easy to spot. |
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Actually, I do run "emerge -pv --update world" before doing the real |
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thing. As I mentioned in another email, my minimalist approach to USE |
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flags occasionally results in emerge complaining that application A |
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requires that application B be emarged with a flag that I don't have |
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enabled. In that case, I do have to do something. I always take a |
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quick scan to see what has changed. I realize that being a |
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control-freak and micro-managing my system takes a bit of extra work, |
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but it's worth it for me. "Robo-emerging" is what looks risky to me. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |