# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

from portage.elog import mod_echo


def _flush_elog_mod_echo():
    """
    Dump the mod_echo output now so that our other
    notifications are shown last.
    @rtype: bool
    @return: True if messages were shown, False otherwise.
    """
    messages_shown = bool(mod_echo._items)
    mod_echo.finalize()
    return messages_shown