[gentoo-user] Show ebuild date/time in emerge --pretend output

[Tanstaafl]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if this is even feasible before I go open a 
bug/enhancement request for portage for this...

One of the things I do to minimize getting bit by newly released buggy 
ebuilds is to wait a few days after a new update is available before 
updating...

This works well, and has saved me some serious pain more than once, but 
it can be a pain to keep up with the updates sometimes...

What would be really helpful would be if the emerge --pretend output 
could show the date (and time?) that the new ebuild was made available...

ie, instead of:

> myhost : Fri Apr 11, 07:45:44 : ~
>  # emerge -pvuDN world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U  ] media-libs/libpng-1.6.10:0/16 [1.6.8:0/16] USE="-apng (-neon) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 878 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 878 kB
> myhost : Fri Apr 11, 09:08:03 : ~
>  #

something like:

> myhost : Fri Apr 11, 07:45:44 : ~
>  # emerge -pvuDN world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U  ] media-libs/libpng-1.6.10:0/16 [1.6.8:0/16, released 4/11/14 at 13:11 am] USE="-apng (-neon) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 878 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 878 kB
> myhost : Fri Apr 11, 09:08:03 : ~
>  #

Of course I don't care exactly where or how the date/time is displayed, 
just that it is there...

So... is this feasible (without a lot of hard work)?

Thanks,

Charles