Andrew Ross

I don't believe in holding the hands of users running ~arch - even if they only have a few ~arch ebuilds on an otherwise stable system. While ALL Gentoo users should be reading the messages delivered via ewarn, for ~arch users this can be critical.

With the introduction of the elog logging framework in portage-2.1.1, there's no excuse for missing these messages. make.conf.example shows how to automatically save ebuild messages to disk, or email them to an address of your choosing. elogviewer provides a nice GUI for reviewing messages, while portage-mod_jabber allows you to receive them via XMPP (Jabber).

Should you want to, there's no reason why you couldn't easily receive ebuild messages via SMS or pager - they could even be posted to a blog using the MetaWeblog API (MWA), or sent directly to your workstation screen using PyKotIcon or Remote Growl.