On Wednesday 21 Sep 2016 10:57:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:43:58 +0000, Franz Fellner wrote: > > > Good suggestion, thanks. notification-deamon wants the upgrade, I'll > > > try with some more masking or USE change. > > > > --verbose --tree (short: -vt) should really be used by default ;) It > > doesn't hurt but it is a great help. > > I disagree, --verbose gives too much information making it harder to spot > the important stuff. For example --verbose shows all USE flags for every > package while without it you only see changes to them, which is normally > all you are interested in.
... and in a case not involving head-scratching and detective work, --tree makes the list much harder to read. So don't do it. :P -- Rgds Peter