diff --git a/sys-libs/elog-functions/Manifest b/sys-libs/elog-functions/Manifest
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+AUX elog-functions.sh 2258 SHA256 c3071138918019c2c217daec01857cfbf39837819838281c3750e51b2625b76e SHA512 b0f42ea05867f5b64680684c0be6a12c1dc58a746dbf4c55d7a9ad436c4767d90ce6d744269de484f7a33d37b0271ac155026f72ec703d7b6889cbf8b29ca3cf WHIRLPOOL cdf8a43427a6c789404e4460fd0a2a0feb9fdbe70ffb430919de9173b2e18ffef74f9a052c453624c0b0be60467ce5cea27fc07579b492c587d8e19cbe2ace50
+EBUILD elog-functions-0.0.2.ebuild 472 SHA256 b21064b88e60f726d0414fdbb57492b82399783b4b180f4839d4c42453d3a1b4 SHA512 b5c57c8dfb67ffa733c888d72f5f9b7b7c19912f7b5550f334a8f472c7bc56051575255b4e7f2925b50c2c8a2c5884e09bd1dd1d63aea129d3cb4c616b626220 WHIRLPOOL 10283532b5518e8799df036d41c1b9b89f0c9da20cc577b0b86e43c3f698ba954f3745d76ca17cd1d9db8ca9e4645026960bb019951262214c8c88a40383b34d
diff --git a/sys-libs/elog-functions/elog-functions-0.0.2.ebuild b/sys-libs/elog-functions/elog-functions-0.0.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+inherit multilib
+
+DESCRIPTION="Compatibility functions for the log e* functions of OpenRC"
+HOMEPAGE="http://xochitl.matem.unam.mx/~canek/gentoo-systemd-only/index.html"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="app-shells/bash"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}"
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/misc
+	doins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.sh"
+}
diff --git a/sys-libs/elog-functions/files/elog-functions.sh b/sys-libs/elog-functions/files/elog-functions.sh
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+# Copyright (c) 2012 Canek Peláez Valdés <canek@ciencias.unam.mx>
+# Compatibility e* log functions from sys-apps/openrc
+
+# Shamelessly stolen from /etc/init.d/functions.sh
+for arg; do
+    case "$arg" in
+        --nocolor|--nocolour|-C)
+	    export EINFO_COLOR="NO"
+	    ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+# Adapted from /etc/init.d/functions.sh so we don't need eval_colors
+if [ "${EINFO_COLOR}" != NO ]; then
+    if [ -z "$GOOD" ]; then
+        GOOD=$(echo -ne "\e[1;32m")
+	WARN=$(echo -ne "\e[1;33m")
+	BAD=$(echo -ne "\e[1;31m")
+	HILITE=$(echo -ne "\e[1;36m")
+	BRACKET=$(echo -ne "\e[1;34m")
+	NORMAL=$(echo -ne "\e[0;0m")
+	export GOOD WARN BAD HILITE BRACKET NORMAL
+    fi
+fi
+
+function elog()
+{
+    if [ "${EINFO_QUIET}" == "true" ]; then
+	return
+    fi
+    echo -ne "${@}"
+}
+
+function errlog()
+{
+    echo -ne "${@}" > /dev/stderr
+}
+
+function einfo()
+{
+    elog " ${GOOD}*${NORMAL} ${_ELOG_INDENT}${@}\n"
+}
+
+function ewarn()
+{
+    errlog " ${WARN}*${NORMAL} ${_ELOG_INDENT}${@}\n"
+}
+
+function eerror()
+{
+    errlog " ${BAD}*${NORMAL} ${_ELOG_INDENT}${@}\n"
+}
+
+function veinfo()
+{
+    if [ "${EINFO_VERBOSE}"  == "true" ]; then
+	einfo "${@}"
+    fi
+}
+
+function vewarn()
+{
+    if [ "${EINFO_VERBOSE}" ]; then
+	ewarn "${@}"
+    fi
+}
+
+function ebegin()
+{
+    elog " ${GOOD}*${NORMAL} ${_ELOG_INDENT}${@} ...\n"
+}
+
+function eend()
+{
+    if [ "${EINFO_QUIET}" == "true" ]; then
+	return
+    fi
+    msg="$1"
+    if [ ! -z "${msg##*[!0-9]*}" ]; then
+	retval="$msg"
+    else
+	eerror "$msg"
+	retval=1
+    fi
+    # go up
+    echo -ne "\e[1A"
+    # ncurses dependency
+    COLUMNS=$(/usr/bin/tput cols)
+    COLUMN=$((COLUMNS - 6))
+    # goto column
+    echo -ne "\e[${COLUMN}C"
+    LBRAC="${BRACKET}[${NORMAL}"
+    RBRAC="${BRACKET}]${NORMAL}"
+    if [ "$retval" != 1 ]; then
+	echo -e "${LBRAC} ${GOOD}ok${NORMAL} ${RBRAC}"
+    else
+	echo -e "${LBRAC} ${BAD}!!${NORMAL} ${RBRAC}"
+    fi
+}
+
+function eindent()
+{
+    if [ -z "${_ELOG_INDENT}" ]; then
+	export _ELOG_INDENT="  "
+    else
+	export _ELOG_INDENT="${_ELOG_INDENT}  "
+    fi
+}
+
+function eoutdent()
+{
+     if [ -z "${_ELOG_INDENT}" ]; then
+	 unset _ELOG_INDENT
+     else
+	 export _ELOG_INDENT=$(echo "${_ELOG_INDENT}" | sed "s/  //")
+     fi
+}
+
+export -f elog errlog einfo ewarn eerror veinfo vewarn ebegin eend eindent eoutdent