Portage suggestion for displaying ebuild messages...

[Iron_DragonLord]

You know how when you emerge a ton of programs, sometimes they have very important critical messages, but alas, you miss it since the next program to be emerged starts up and it all scrolls by too fast. Or perhaps you just walked away from your computer while it compiles a ton of stuff (like emerge system).

I wonder how many people missed installing a dictionary, or how many people would stop asking how to add their CD-Key to games if they saw the message/

So I came up with a spiffy idea. Why not buffer all the messages into a variable, then when portage finishes, echo that variable? This way, the most recent lines will be the messages from the ebuilds (the * ones). This is usually where it tells you if any config files need updating.

To clarify which package the message is from, it could be like...

[Earthwings]

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads in favour of https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=131795
Variables can't take that much information, but logging to files and displaying that works, see the thread on some scripts that do it for you.
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