Re: Thought about emerge

� wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Good news, thanks to all the help I got on this list, my Alpha XL-366 
> is now running Gentoo. The essential things work great (booting, 
> kernel, apache2, perl, ssh, samba).
>
> I'm now in the process of emerging and compiling the 88 packages 
> needed for kde (geez, that'll take a while) :-)
>
> I was thinking, is there someplace where all the "end-of-emerge notes" 
> are put after an emerge? You know, the little reminders like :
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> * The configuration file has changed from that in XFree86.
> * It is xorg.conf instead of XF86Config.
> * You may use xorgcfg, X -configure, or xorgconfig
> * to create xorg.conf.
> * If XF86Config exists and xorg.conf does not, it will still
> * read XF86Config.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> which I'd really like to read, but which I'll probably mostly miss 
> because I'll be sleeping while they scroll past my screen... When 
> emerging something that really has a lot of dependencies, like kde 
> which in my case had 88 (including xorg-x11 of course), it would be 
> nice if those notes would go into a file, which I could read once the 
> whole process is done. Or even better, they could all be saved and 
> shown on screen at the end of the whole emerge, instead of after their 
> specific packages... That way we'd be sure to be able to read them.
>
> Does anything like that exist? I can't really think of an alternative, 
> since I'd really like to use the time while I sleep to do some 
> compiling, but then I miss all these important notes...
>
> Thanks,
>
> J-S
>
See make.conf's PORT_LOGDIR.  Will log all the goodies for you.  I 
believe you need to create the directory before portage will write to it 
however.

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Alec Warner
Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu )
Junior Computer Science
Michigan State University
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