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| Several times on this list we have been told how to enable portage log
| files, but I don't think enough has been said of how useful they are,
| even when nothing is visibly wrong.
|
| Emerge output is rather lengthy and the "yellow" comments can easily
| be missed.  However, it appears that emerge writes two log files, one
| with the standard stuff (compiles, links, etc) and the other with
| messages.  Often the latter is empty.  But the good thing is when you
|    ls -l $PORT_LOGDIR
| you can see when the second (typically much smaller) entry is
| non-empty and read this one.
|
| Eventually the logs can take up some noticeable space, but tmpwatch
| (or equivalent) solves this.
|
| allan gottlieb
Good tip Allan. Thanks. =)

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