[gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I've just kicked off an "emerge -NuD world" and will now head out for a 
while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, libreoffice, Firefox & 
Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to know where the emerge is 
up to so, in my ignorance of portage/emerge in great depth and with only 
compiler output spewing up the screen, I'll fire up another terminal, 
and now don't laugh, I'll do "emerge --pretend -NuD world". That will 
tell me what's currently being compiled as it will be the top thingy on 
the list. There has to be a better way....

	Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in can 
display additional info? At the moment, I get:

/home/agl: emerge

can I get, say:

/home/agl: emerge www-client/firefox

by setting some config variable? Failing that is there a log file that 
lists just what's been emerged, not a whole lot of "checking this, 
checking that, compiling this file, linking that library, whoops, error 
here..." sort of thing.

	Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,

		Andrew