[gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Ryan Curtin]

Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I ran my semi-weekly 'emerge
-uavD world', some packages were given in bold.  For a while I thought
perhaps they were more system-critical packages, but upon further
investigation I could find no sort of pattern to which packages were
being bolded and which weren't.  Then I thought maybe it was a local
bug, but soon thereafter some of my friends noticed the same thing in
their portage outputs.

Does anyone know why this behavior occurs?  To me it doesn't appear to
be providing any sort of useful information and only serves to confuse
me.

Thanks,

Ryan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:28:17 Ryan Curtin wrote:
> Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I ran my semi-weekly 'emerge
> -uavD world', some packages were given in bold.  For a while I thought
> perhaps they were more system-critical packages, but upon further
> investigation I could find no sort of pattern to which packages were
> being bolded and which weren't.  Then I thought maybe it was a local
> bug, but soon thereafter some of my friends noticed the same thing in
> their portage outputs.
>
> Does anyone know why this behavior occurs?  To me it doesn't appear to
> be providing any sort of useful information and only serves to confuse
> me.

Packages in bold are in your world file.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142473

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Alexander Skwar]

· Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>:


> Packages in bold are in your world file.

Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report
you digged out?

Thx,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Wednesday 11 July 2007 19:54:43 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> · Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>:
> > Packages in bold are in your world file.
>
> Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report
> you digged out?

Other than what's in `man 5 color.map`? Probably not.. The bug is referenced 
in the ChangeLog but not explained. I *think* it's planned for the next gwn 
(whenever that is) but I'm not really sure. You can of course complain about 
that on the bug report I digged out.. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:54 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> · Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>:
> 
> 
> > Packages in bold are in your world file.
> 
> Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report
> you digged out?

yes, on the mailing list archives... someone called Ryan asked the
question and someone called Alexander asked if it was documented...

> Thx,

you probably won't thank me anymore after answer like this :)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Alexander Skwar]

Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:54 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> · Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>:
>> 
>> 
>> > Packages in bold are in your world file.
>> 
>> Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report
>> you digged out?
> 
> yes, on the mailing list archives... someone called Ryan asked the
> question and someone called Alexander asked if it was documented...

*lol* Nice one ;)

> 
>> Thx,
> 
> you probably won't thank me anymore after answer like this :)

You're absolutely right *G*

Cheers,
Alexander Skwar

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

[Ryan Curtin]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Bo rsted Andresen wrote:
> Packages in bold are in your world file.
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142473

I looked through bugs, but I guess I was doing it wrong since I didn't
come across that one.

Thanks for the help!

Ryan

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