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.


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Neil Bothwick

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