commit:     f3ae6bb0bd495b6b16d7e617515f4504ae2e1839
Author:     Waldo Lemmer <waldolemmer1 <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
AuthorDate: Sun May 26 14:30:32 2024 +0000
Commit:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun May 26 19:09:06 2024 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=f3ae6bb0

emerge.1: Fix /var/log/emerge.log description

/var/log/emerge.log doesn't "[contain] a log of all emerge output". This
commit changes this description to better reflect what emerge.log
contains:

 - Packages that were built

 - emerge's invocation (i.e. its command-line arguments)

Signed-off-by: Waldo Lemmer <waldolemmer1 <AT> gmail.com>
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/1331
Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo.org>

 man/emerge.1 | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index dd9cde5722..5c36dc1f0d 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "EMERGE" "1" "Jan 2024" "Portage @VERSION@" "Portage"
+.TH "EMERGE" "1" "May 2024" "Portage @VERSION@" "Portage"
 .SH "NAME"
 emerge \- Command\-line interface to the Portage system
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -1520,8 +1520,8 @@ Contains the default variables for the build process.  
\fBDo not edit
 this file\fR.
 .TP
 .B /var/log/emerge.log
-Contains a log of all emerge output. This file is always appended to, so if you
-want to clean it, you need to do so manually.
+Contains a log of merged packages and invocations of \fBemerge\fR.  This file
+is always appended to, so if you want to clean it, you need to do so manually.
 .TP
 .B /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
 Contains a log of all the fetches in the previous emerge invocation.

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