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On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:53:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick |
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> 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 |
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> > > > changes (scanner, rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing |
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> > > > packages and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added |
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> > > > packages that I didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through |
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> > > > the lot at the time. |
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> > > |
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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 |
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> to tweak them?" |
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> I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-) |
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I was planning to run it twice anyway, without & with ... ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |