Apparently, though unproven, at 21:51 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
> > Well perhaps it's nitpicking, but I like my systems as lean as possible. > > I almost never emerge anything without -av options, just so I can say > > "no" and edit package.use if need be. It rarely causes more than a few > > extra seconds to be consumed, since my needs don't change terribly often. > > Depends on how one uses the system, I suppose... > > 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
