From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QLhQ7-0003jO-DE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:56:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B8591C083; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD5A1C083 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3992231wyi.40 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 12:53:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=bSNXmhHnm0ZB47KiTJkf/nHdysJ3/1Mc9YCvXgB7WFU=; b=GLRbdFV72UE7LcGOKGDYodwpZR9JDcn1PN+RV54c5IaFwVlfjexRO1PNwS6WnTL4uk Ekg0ptzyGi0WfKQQImmgW/A0qFHnj32+uKuCnzlFWC48wznKSzgietGV+wbZJvOxVzN+ waDt5BX/TEa8JFzSsxKIyjK03D4fq+xS8DKH0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=VCjWBkBnnUK4Xz8alxq3+ovphK4Yf/x33Kt/V2JLORsemANoBpUMEt4RXPOmWIYwbp 4sIAJWJd3rWX1MkJFA9LDpjal5kjbX9rokPLRfSpv3R2N/VKZImY8kIS2t4C+yCi+UhM VfFaGlktFcN+UqhYUxGEfFWpQhuGw6ba1z1nA= Received: by 10.227.37.14 with SMTP id v14mr3611231wbd.25.1305489236072; Sun, 15 May 2011 12:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bi13sm2710772wbb.59.2011.05.15.12.53.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 15 May 2011 12:53:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 21:53:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <201105142255.49830.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110515191426.7054e4eb@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110515191426.7054e4eb@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105152153.04703.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 92ec53bb1f53c9791127ea19a0add818 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 :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com