Bug 903774

Summary:	Log list of packages to be merged
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Christopher Smith <chrylis>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christopher Smith 2023-04-04 15:07:47 UTC

Currently, Portage writes the effective emerge command to /var/log/emerge.log, showing what was requested, and then it writes each major step in the process. However, it does not write the list of packages to be merged, such as printed by `emerge -p`. This means that during a log install (e.g., KDE), I am not sure whether a particular other dependency is scheduled for merge (and what version/slot if it is). It would be convenient for Portage to also log the execution plan between the command and the actual execution.