On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:53:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick
> did
> 
> opine thusly:
> > 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.
> 
> I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not ask
> myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do I need
> to tweak them?"
> 
> I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-)

I was planning to run it twice anyway, without & with ...  ;-)

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Regards,
Mick