Howdy, It's cold so I booted up my old rig, and NAS box, and was updating the OS for a little extra heat. I was looking at the output of eix-diff that is at the end of eix-sync. I'm used to seeing U, N and such but noticed something new today. Some, llvm for example, has a "*" included. Like this:
[*U] >> llvm-core/clang (19.1.4(19/19.1)): C language family frontend for LLVM [*U] >> llvm-core/clang-common (19.1.4): Common files shared between multiple slots of clang [*U] >> llvm-core/clang-runtime (19.1.4(19)): Meta-ebuild for clang runtime libraries [*U] >> llvm-core/clang-toolchain-symlinks (19(19)): Symlinks to use Clang on GCC-free system [*N] >> llvm-core/libclc (19.1.4): OpenCL C library [*U] >> llvm-core/lld (19.1.4(19/19.1)): The LLVM linker (link editor) [*U] >> llvm-core/lld-toolchain-symlinks (19(19)): Symlinks to use LLD on binutils-free system [*N] >> llvm-core/lldb (19.1.4(0/19.1)): The LLVM debugger [*U] >> llvm-core/llvm (19.1.4(19/19.1)): Low Level Virtual Machine [*U] >> llvm-core/llvm-common (19.1.4): Common files shared between multiple slots of LLVM [*U] >> llvm-core/llvm-toolchain-symlinks (19(19)): Symlinks to use LLVM on binutils-free system [*U] >> llvm-core/llvmgold (19): LLVMgold plugin symlink for autoloading [*U] >> llvm-runtimes/compiler-rt (19.1.4(19)): Compiler runtime library for clang (built-in part) [*U] >> llvm-runtimes/compiler-rt-sanitizers (19.1.4(19)): Compiler runtime libraries for clang (sanitizers & xray) [*N] >> llvm-runtimes/libcxx (19.1.4): New implementation of the C++ standard library, targeting C++11 [*N] >> llvm-runtimes/libcxxabi (19.1.4): Low level support for a standard C++ library [*N] >> llvm-runtimes/libunwind (19.1.4): C++ runtime stack unwinder from LLVM I googled, checked the Gentoo wiki and even looked up some pages about diff itself, thinking it would spit out the same type of stuff and explain what that means. I found explanations of some output stuff but nothing about the "*" bit. Anyone know what that is about? What does the "*" mean? Is it unique to Gentoo? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
