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 -- Neil Bothwick "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." (Albert Einstein)
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