From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16729 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Sep 2003 20:57:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12908 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2003 20:57:47 -0000 From: Douglas Russell Organization: University Of Reading To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:56:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030906215042.7bc68670.genone@genone.de> <20030906224656.78bc2898.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030906224656.78bc2898.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309062156.21547.puggy@bobspants.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: 85db1d82-6570-4e29-a9aa-3d2a3a00e169 X-Archives-Hash: 1fb6315856abcd8fac05ec12b5edbd3c =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 September 2003 9:46 pm, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:50:42 +0200 > > Marius Mauch wrote: > > A accurate progress bar is nearly impossible as compile times differ > > from package to package > > Maybe maintainers could fill in the ebuilds a kind of approximative > compile time from their experience, which would be relative to a > well know reference time (a kernel compilation with default options, or > something like this). It doesn't need to be very accurate. This has also been discussed recently, I'm not sure if there was a resoluti= on.=20 I think it came down to what was happening about gentoo stats...as of cours= e,=20 an approx value on a Athlon XP 2800+ with a gig of RAM is not going to help= =20 someone on a P133 with 32 MBs of RAM. Stats would allow a lookup against=20 previous emerges done on similar spec'd machines. Puggy =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WknzXYnvgFdTojMRAsHGAKDOcLOYbrkeFw8D7sQ69EeW/GLUkwCcC4Zx nE1woeHGDeT1Y0LAdxbIvTM=3D =3DhCJf =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list