Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and NetworkManager

["András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu>]

On 19 July 2013 10:17, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:35:52 +0200, András Csányi wrote:
>
>> >> >> Ok. How is possible to get the post-install message of an ebuild
>> >> >> without re-emerge the package neither opening the log file? The
>> >> >> man page of emerge cannot say anything about it.
>
>> When I sad that to read the ebuild is not user friendly I thought of
>> that it should be a better solution to get post install message than
>> open the ebuild and read it. The elogv is fine for me.
>
> Elogv is a log viewer, you specifically stated that you did not wish to
> read the log files, hence the "read the ebuild" suggestion.

Yes, you are right. I wrote that. The meaning of that was:
- I don't want to open a log file manually
- I don't want to browse the log file to find what I need
- I don't want to burn my time to put raw the information into context
in order to it would be easy to understand

Elogv does what I described above for me. This is the reason why I say
that it is perfect for me.

> Although I have portage save the logs, I rarely look at them because I
> also have it mail them to me. That way they are easy to read and hard to
> ignore.

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