On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:22:48 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Well, Neil did say that he felt that was too much information (he only > wants the notification for packages he has installed, not for ones he > doesn't). I'd like to mention, though, that having the full output can > disclose some handy apps that one didn't know about but would find > useful to install. It's happened to me several times that I was checking > the updated programs list (either via esync or on packages.gentoo.org, > and investigated an application with an interesting name, and found > something I wanted.
I have the RSS feed from packages.gentoo.org running in Kticker, so that takes care of seeing what's new. It all depends on what you want. I just wanted to be able to see what needed upgrading on several machines, so mailing the output of emerge -uD world suits me best. I can understand that others would rather see the output from esync. -- Neil Bothwick Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control!
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