Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Monday 26 December 2005 07:18, Petteri Räty wrote:
> 
>>I propose we improve the emerge -pv output to be something like the
>>following:
>>
>>[ebuild     U ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10-r1 [1.0.10] NEW="-debug"
>>OLD="-doc oss" 0 kB
>>
>>This would keep the functionality with --verbose.
> 
> 
> The NEW and OLD variables have no meaning. USE have been put there because 
> any 
> USE_EXPAND flags found in IUSE are represented separately. For example:
> 
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6  USE="-bitmap-fonts cjk -debug 
> -dlloader -dmx -doc font-server -insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal -nls -nocxx 
> opengl -pam -sdk -static truetype-fonts -type1-fonts -xprint xv" 
> INPUT_DEVICES="-synaptics -wacom" 44,520 kB
> 
> I doubt that the NEW and OLD would really be visible in the --verbose output 
> in the general case anyway. How about just making added flags green to match 
> the output of changed flags?
> 

Green would probably work. Maybe best to change it for -p too then to
have -v do what is supposed to do, that is to give extra information.
Maybe we could also change the - in front of the turned of use flags to
some other color than the flag itself to make it stand out. It took me a
while to notice it was there.

Regards,
Petteri



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