On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:
> > On 8 Jan 2010, at 04:44, James Ausmus wrote: > >> ... >> >> This looks pretty awesome - I'm not in a position to test it right now, >> but can this be thrown in an overlay so I can get to it in the future >> easily, and get the updates easily? >> > > +1 > > ... I would love to have this just popup a notification that I can click >> which will show me the (important) info - aka the database diff - from the >> latest eix-syncs... >> > > What is this wonderful feature of eix that I have been missing out on, > please? > > Stroller. > > > Use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync, and, at the end of the sync process, eix automatically does an eix db update, and shows you the diff between the old db and the new db - updated packages, updated packages you have installed, new packages, removed pacakges, etc - very handy to have... -James
