Dale, On Saturday, 2023-07-08 03:33:30 -0500, you 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. I simply don't know whether or not build-time related highlighting is possible in native Portage. I retrieve that information by some script- ing, which involves sending the output of "emerge --ask" to a log file, and as soon as "emerge" asks whether to continue, running a script in another terminal window which analyses this log file using "qlop" and "gawk". But to really ban several buld-time hogs from my rig, I added "-clang" and "-llvm" to my global USE flags, added "dev-lang/rust" to directory "package.mask/", causing "dev-lang/rust-bin" to be used when necessary, and besides happily replaced "www-client/firefox" with its binary vari- ant. I also tried this with "app-office/libreoffice", but sadly its bi- nary variant does not support exporting to PDF, so I humbly returned to "app-office/libreoffice" which here needs some three hours to build. If you don't need this feature, I would recommend using its binary version, too. Luckily, I don't have many "Qt" packages as dependencies, the lon- gest build time of these is about 23 minutes here. Sincerely, Rainer
