On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:14:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.

Of course!  Been using -v out of habit and had forgotten about this.  :)
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Regards,
Mick