Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:52:39AM +0000, Stroller wrote

> You claim to be "a control freak" but you seem to be doing this to
> avoid the "chore" of properly inspecting USE flags each time you
> emerge. If you `emerge --pretend` before every update you make,
> you would see what's changed! What's the point in running `emerge
> --pretend` if you don't look at it!?!? Further to the aside in
> the email I sent a minute or two ago, all the changed USE flags in
> Portage's output show up in bright yellow or green, BTW, so they're
> easy to spot.

  Actually, I do run "emerge -pv --update world" before doing the real
thing.  As I mentioned in another email, my minimalist approach to USE
flags occasionally results in emerge complaining that application A
requires that application B be emarged with a flag that I don't have
enabled.  In that case, I do have to do something.  I always take a
quick scan to see what has changed.  I realize that being a
control-freak and micro-managing my system takes a bit of extra work,
but it's worth it for me.  "Robo-emerging" is what looks risky to me.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>