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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Highlight certain packages being upgraded
From:       Dale <rdalek1967 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-07-13 7:13:54
Message-ID: f4935fe3-c370-1ada-d34d-35a5e8d980c3 () gmail ! com
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Wol wrote:
> On 08/07/2023 21:20, Dale wrote:
>> Just as a example, my overnight upgrade included nvidia drivers.  I
>> didn't see it so when I logged out, no X.  I usually see it but missed
>> it this time.  Having a way to easily set the colors would be easier but
>> having to repeat things, create files to scan, use tools I'm not
>> familiar with and such, that isn't easy.  I wanted to be able to see it
>> in the initial list, make a note of what packages I need to do things
>> for and then hit yes to continue.  Basically, I was hoping emerge had a
>> way to do this that isn't known to me.  After all, the thing all but
>> washes dishes already.  ROFL
>>
>> Maybe one day others will like this idea and one of them is willing to
>> add some code to emerge to do it.  Until then, I guess I'll just miss
>> one on occasion and have to scratch my head a couple times.
>>
>> Thanks to all.  Interesting ideas but generally over my head.  :/
>
> Something I saw elsewhere - why don't you put all of these programs
> into a list like @system or @world. You can exclude these programs
> from an "emerge @world".
>
> I don't know whether these programs will be emerged as dependencies of
> an "emerge @world", but if you want to know if they will be emerged,
> an "emerge @... --pretend" will tell you.
>
> So firstly, you know whether any of these programs are going to be
> emerged. Secondly, you can emerge all the hogs in one go. And thirdly,
> you you can emerge @world before or after.
>
> So, I guess, if you don't exclude these hogs from @world then you can
> just find out if they are going to be emerged (and emerge them first
> if you want), or if you do exclude them from @world, you can emerge
> them (to some extent at least) on your own timescale.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


That requires a extra step each time tho.  I was hoping I could put a
list of packages in a file and when I do emerge -auDN world, it
highlights the packages listed in the file with a different color.  No
extra steps or anything.  It just changes the colors.

It seems emerge doesn't have this ability easily and it may never have
either.  I'd be surprised if anyone ever even thought of such a thing. 
However, some dev may have seen this thread and thought, hey, that would
be neato.  ROFL

Thanks for the idea.  My wish just isn't quite ready for prime time yet. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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