On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:53:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 :-)
I was planning to run it twice anyway, without & with ... ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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