On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:28:17 Ryan Curtin wrote:
> Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I ran my semi-weekly 'emerge
> -uavD world', some packages were given in bold.  For a while I thought
> perhaps they were more system-critical packages, but upon further
> investigation I could find no sort of pattern to which packages were
> being bolded and which weren't.  Then I thought maybe it was a local
> bug, but soon thereafter some of my friends noticed the same thing in
> their portage outputs.
>
> Does anyone know why this behavior occurs?  To me it doesn't appear to
> be providing any sort of useful information and only serves to confuse
> me.

Packages in bold are in your world file.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142473

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Bo Andresen