On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Indi wrote:

> About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused 
> portage to lose the ability to work verbosely. 
> Ever since it looks like this:
> <paste>
> idd@gh:[~]9:07:23 $ sudo emerge -vauND adobe-flash
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U  ] sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r1 [2.14.1] USE="nls -debug -gd -glibc-omitfp (-hardened) (-multilib) -profile (-selinux) -vanilla" 150 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/binutils-2.22  USE="nls zlib%* -multislot -multitarget -static-libs -test -vanilla" 0 kB
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0e-r1 [1.0.0e] USE="bindist kerberos sse2 zlib -gmp -rfc3779 -static-libs% -test" 3,950 kB
> [ebuild     U  ] net-misc/curl-7.23.1 [7.22.0] USE="ipv6 ssl threads -ares -gnutls -idn -kerberos -ldap -nss -ssh% -static-libs -test (-libssh2%)" 2,321 kB
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25 [2.1.23-r6] USE="berkdb openldap ssl -authdaemond -gdbm -java -kerberos -ldapdb% -mysql -pam -postgres -sample -sqlite% -srp -static-libs% -urandom (-crypt%*) (-ntlm_unsupported_patch%)" 5,088 kB
> [ebuild     U  ] dev-vcs/git-1.7.8 [1.7.8_rc4] USE="blksha1 cgi curl cvs iconv perl python subversion threads webdav -doc -emacs -gtk (-ppcsha1) -tk -xinetd" 3,941 kB
> 
> Total: 6 packages (5 upgrades, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 15,448 kB
> 
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
> >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
> >>> Starting parallel fetch
> >>> Emerging (1 of 6) sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r1
> >>> Jobs: 0 of 6 complete, 1 running                Load avg: 2.16, 1.66, 1.10
> 
> </paste>
> 
> Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge portage, etc etc etc etc
> I just can't seem to get proper output from emerge anymore no matter what. Other than that
> everything is working fine, but I do need to see actual output.
> 
> Anyone know what to do to fix this?

Did you enable parallel builds? I.e. added --jobs and/or --load related options
to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? In that case emerge uses this kind of output, because
obviously you can’t display multiple builds at the same time in one window.

The -v flag, to my knowledge, only affects the output of -p and -a, adding
information like used and changed use flags and file size to download for each
package to be installed.
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