Emerge no longer printing out installed/removed files?

[cmpxchg8b]

Greetings to all.

I've recently noticed that emerge doesn't seem to print out a list of installed files anymore, subsequently `emerge --unmerge` doesn't appear to do it anymore either.

For reference, I'm talking about the output that used to appear near the end of build when all the files were actually being copied into the root filesystem.

Is this something that changed in Portage recently? If it did, how can I restore the prior functionality?

Cheers,
-CMPX

[Zucca]

I think to have emerge display the changed files, you'd need to pass --verbose --jobs=1.
Normally when you run emerge it'll run parallel ebuild processes. That discards all the normal output from the build process, unless an error, which stop the build, is encountered.

[Banana]

There is also the posibility to tail the current build log for each package. Which will be tricky if things get done fast. tail -f /var/tmp/portage/{category}/{name}/temp/build.log

Portage itself does provide log settings which may be better for your case: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_log

[sam_]

I think to have emerge display the changed files, you'd need to pass --verbose --jobs=1.
Normally when you run emerge it'll run parallel ebuild processes. That discards all the normal output from the build process, unless an error, which stop the build, is encountered.

The default is no parallel emerge-level jobs. No code has changed here though.

[Zucca]

The default is no parallel emerge-level jobs.

Ah. Thanks for correcting.

So by default emerge should print out what was removed and installed.
Some options suppress the output like --quiet-build and --jobs (if greater than 1).

[Hu]

OP: Welcome to the forums.

What is the output of type emerge; emerge --info? I want to see whether you have a wrapper that is adding any arguments to emerge, and whether you have default-enabled any of the functionality discussed above (parallel build, --quiet-build, or even plain --quiet). I am not aware of any of these having a recent change of defaults at the Gentoo level, but perhaps your personal make.conf has been changed in a way that affects the defaults used on your system.

[cmpxchg8b]

Sorry for the late reply, it's been... a busy month getting used to Gentoo as a desktop system.

For some reason functionality seems to have returned; in fact I'm not really sure what caused this to begin with. I've seen it happen once or twice since then, but I can't seem to trigger the behavior predictably. It almost seems like it's something environment related since logging out and back in again usually fixes it, though I have no idea what since I'm not really running a particularly esoteric setup nor do I have anything in my profile (or bashrc) that manipulates the environment in any way.

Nevertheless, here's my output from `type emerge; emerge --info`:

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emerge is /usr/bin/emerge
Portage 3.0.72 (python 3.13.11-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/systemd, gcc-15, glibc-2.41-r10, 6.12.58-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.12.58-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5-2690_v4_@_2.60GHz-with-glibc2.41
KiB Mem:   131911516 total,    669748 free
KiB Swap:   33554428 total,  33553404 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:45:00 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 2bb9b8b92da3d4cf824ec26426e39b488085df8b
Timestamp of repository updates: Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:30:00 +0000
sh bash 5.3_p9
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.45.1 p1) 2.45.1
app-misc/pax-utils:        1.3.8::gentoo
app-shells/bash:           5.3_p9::gentoo
dev-build/autoconf:        2.72-r6::gentoo
dev-build/automake:        1.18.1::gentoo
dev-build/cmake:           4.1.4::gentoo
dev-build/libtool:         2.5.4::gentoo
dev-build/make:            4.4.1-r102::gentoo
dev-build/meson:           1.9.2::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:             5.42.0-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:           3.13.11::gentoo
dev-lang/rust:             1.90.0-r1::gentoo
llvm-core/clang:           20.1.8::gentoo
llvm-core/lld:             20.1.8::gentoo
llvm-core/llvm:            20.1.8::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:       2.18::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:          2.46::gentoo
sys-apps/systemd:          258.3::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:        2.45.1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.6::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:             15.2.1_p20251122::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:      2.12.2::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers:  6.12::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:            2.41-r10::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    volatile: False
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3

custom
    location: /var/db/repos/custom
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

updates
    location: /var/db/repos/updates
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: --filter=". /var/db/repos/updates/config/filters.conf"
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: no

Binary Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/cache/binhost/gentoo
    priority: 1
    sync-uri: https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64

Installed sets: @audio_packages, @bluetooth_packages, @corsair_packages, @extra_packages, @font_packages, @kde_packages, @mozilla_packages, @printer_packages, @qemu_packages, @rocm_packages, @system_packages, @user_packages, @video_packages, @wacom_packages, @wine_packages
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --usepkg --buildpkg --keep-going --with-bdeps=y --binpkg-respect-use=y --buildpkg-exclude */*-bin --buildpkg-exclude virtual/* --buildpkg-exclude acct-user/* --buildpkg-exclude acct-group/* --buildpkg-exclude sys-firmware/* --buildpkg-exclude sys-kernel/* --buildpkg-exclude x11-drivers/*"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs binpkg-multi-instance buildpkg buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync merge-wait multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://gentoo.gossamerhost.com http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com"
INSTALL_MASK=" /etc/cron.*/* /etc/conf.d/* /etc/init.d/*"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
LEX="flex"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="bzip2"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avif bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cet colord crypt cups dbus dts dvd dvdr egl encode exif flac fontconfig gdbm gif gles2 glx gtk heif iconv icu ipv6 jpeg jpegxl kde libnotify libtirpc linguas_en linguas_en_US mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nvme ogg opencl openexr opengl openh264 openmp opus pam pango pcre pipewire plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt5 qt6 readline samba screencast seccomp smart sound spell ssl startup-notification svg systemd test-rust theora tiff truetype udev udisks unicode usb vaapi vdpau vorbis vulkan wacom wayland webp wxwidgets x264 x265 xattr xcb xft xinerama xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gcc_15" AMDGPU_TARGETS="gfx1100" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 pclmul popcnt rdrand sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" GUILE_SINGLE_TARGET="3-0" GUILE_TARGETS="3-0" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput wacom" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LLVM_SLOT="20" LLVM_TARGETS="AMDGPU SPIRV X86" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-3" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres17" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_13" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby32 ruby33" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeonsi" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

I'm guessing maybe it's some sort of a bug in portage? Either way it's not too annoying or anything, it's just something I've noticed on occasion that I don't really have a good explanation for.

Cheers,
-cmpx