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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants to upgrade gtk+ but it's masked
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:48:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3408425.tUO9X2FuJl@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160921105711.155d50ea@phoucgh.digimed.co.uk>

On Wednesday 21 Sep 2016 10:57:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:43:58 +0000, Franz Fellner wrote:
> > > Good suggestion, thanks. notification-deamon wants the upgrade, I'll
> > > try with some more masking or USE change.
> > 
> > --verbose --tree (short: -vt) should really be used by default ;) It
> > doesn't hurt but it is a great help.
> 
> I disagree, --verbose gives too much information making it harder to spot
> the important stuff. For example --verbose shows all USE flags for every
> package while without it you only see changes to them, which is normally
> all you are interested in.

... and in a case not involving head-scratching and detective work, --tree 
makes the list much harder to read.

So don't do it.  :P

-- 
Rgds
Peter



      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-21 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-21  8:30 [gentoo-user] emerge wants to upgrade gtk+ but it's masked Raffaele BELARDI
2016-09-21  8:57 ` Franz Fellner
2016-09-21  9:14   ` Raffaele BELARDI
2016-09-21  9:43     ` Franz Fellner
2016-09-21  9:57       ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-21 10:48         ` Peter Humphrey [this message]

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