Often while emerging packages, (e.g. emerge -u world) a package generates some informative messages; however, the messages scroll by as other packages are emerged, assuming you're sitting there watching the entire process. If you're not watching, you have no idea the informative message was ever generated. If the informative message was "Do this or your system will blow up," your system is gonna blow up, defeating the intent of printing the message to begin with. It would be nice to have an easy way to gather this information and display it when all the packages are complete. Maybe the messages could be buffered, and a summary printed for each package that generated a message be printed at the end of the process once all packages have been emerged. If not that, maybe a log could be generated with the name of the package and the messages that were generated. I realize a user-based solution is to just redirect all the emerge output to a file, but I don't think that's an elegant solution. Thank you for considering this request. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686)
Sorry folks, someone just pointed me to PORT_LOGDIR in /etc/make.conf. Looks like that's the functionality I was looking for. I wonder what other new and exciting features are available I don't know about :-P
