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