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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Highlight certain packages being upgraded
From:       Dale <rdalek1967 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-07-08 17:02:09
Message-ID: 201890e3-6380-9422-ac12-df13ef904475 () gmail ! com
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 03:33:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> I was wondering.  Is there a way to highlight certain packages that are
>> about to be upgraded?  Example, I like to know when some larger packages
>> like Firefox, LOo, that excessively long qt package and a couple others
>> are going to be upgraded.  Some that are listed in the world file show
>> up in a darker green and are easier to see however, some are not. They
>> are dependencies of another package but I'd like to have them stick out
>> in the list of packages to be upgraded.  I don't recall ever seeing
>> anyone mention this as a feature of emerge or heard of a way to
>> configure such a thing either.  That said, it could be possible and just
>> not well known. 
> If your objective is to update your system without the long build times,
> put the atoms of the relevant packages in a file and run
>
> emerge --your-options --exclude "$(cat big-packages.txt)" @world
>
>


I'm just wanting certain packages to stand out more in the list emerge
spits out.  Some require a lot of memory, some have long build times,
some both of those and some require me to restart programs or do other
things.  I already check the changes in USE flags but they stick out
good since they are usually yellow or some other color.  I was curious
if I could set colors for certain packages without reinventing the
wheel.  While I don't recall hearing or seeing anything about it, I
thought it might be possible I just hadn't heard about a feature that
does this. 

Doesn't sound like there is a easy way to do this so I guess just
looking at each package name is the way to go for now. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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