Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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 > >
I'm just wanting certain packages to stand out more in the list emerge spits out. Some require a lot of memory, some have long build times, some both of those and some require me to restart programs or do other things. I already check the changes in USE flags but they stick out good since they are usually yellow or some other color. I was curious if I could set colors for certain packages without reinventing the wheel. While I don't recall hearing or seeing anything about it, I thought it might be possible I just hadn't heard about a feature that does this. Doesn't sound like there is a easy way to do this so I guess just looking at each package name is the way to go for now. Dale :-) :-)
