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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:46:37
Message-Id: 201105152145.43589.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:53:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick
3 > did
4 >
5 > opine thusly:
6 > > On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
7 > > > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last
8 > > > > KDE upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag
9 > > > > changes (scanner, rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing
10 > > > > packages and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added
11 > > > > packages that I didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through
12 > > > > the lot at the time.
13 > > >
14 > > > Is your emerge output colorized?
15 > > >
16 > > > USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside
17 > > > [ebuild ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being
18 > > > able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way.
19 > >
20 > > It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are
21 > > changes.
22 >
23 > I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not ask
24 > myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do I need
25 > to tweak them?"
26 >
27 > I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-)
28
29 I was planning to run it twice anyway, without & with ... ;-)
30
31 --
32 Regards,
33 Mick

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