elogviewer.1

.TH elogviewer 1 "Feb 19, 2015" "An elog viewer for Gentoo Linux"

.SH NAME
.TP
elogviewer \- an elog viewer for Gentoo Linux

.SH SYNOPSIS
.TP
elogviewer [\-h | \-\-help]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B
elogviewer
displays elogs generated by
.BR portage (5)
in a Qt graphical user interface.

Elogs summarize important messages generated by the Gentoo Linux
package manager during installation and upgrades.  The feature
must be enabled
by setting

.RS 4
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn info error log"
.RE

in
.BR make.conf (5).

See /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example\% for more
information on elogs.

The user must be in the \fIportage\fP group to run the program
without root privilege.  See
.BR groups (1).

.SH BUGS
Due to incompatible versions, the \fIread\fP and \fIimportant\fP
flags do not stick when switching from Python 2 to Python 3.

.SH AUTHOR
This document is placed in the public domain.

This document is based on the original (k)elogviewer man page
written by \fBChristian Faulhammer\fP.  It was rewritten by
\fBMathias Laurin\fP.

.B
elogviewer
is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license.  It is currently
maintained by Mathias Laurin.  The original idea and the first
implementation with the gtk toolkit are from \fB Timothy
Kilbourn\fP.  \fBJeremy Wickersheimer\fP authored the Qt3 port.
 
.SH SEE ALSO
Homepage, sources, and dowloads:
.IP \(bu 4
http://elogviewer.sourceforge.net
.IP \(bu
https://github.com/Synss/elogviewer
.IP \(bu
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elogviewer/