From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13717 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2004 20:40:54 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Jul 2004 20:40:54 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bk7bZ-0005Uh-UG for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:40:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 22577 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jul 2004 20:40:38 +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 24963 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2004 20:40:37 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:25:49 -0400 X-OfflineIMAP-x1548206742-70696d656e7473656e64-494e424f582e4f7574626f78: 1089664506-0402909317125 From: Aron Griffis To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040712202549.GA9281@mustard.zk3.dec.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200407102138.12364.dma147@mieland-programming.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407102138.12364.dma147@mieland-programming.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some important questions to the officals of www.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: c1377d92-cce4-4f29-9b0f-98d66349fd28 X-Archives-Hash: 03a000d190cc6d857431c72066d91290 --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I can't speak for the merit of your idea or implementation, but here's an idea for you... portage should keep track of how long it has taken in the past to merge various packages on the current machine and use that as an indicator for how long it will take to build the current package. This cache could be preloaded with guesstimated numbers if you want, but the nice thing is that it would be customized to the local machine's typical performance on a per-package basis, and wouldn't require continued network access to function. Regards, Aron -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA8vPNJrHF4yAQTrARAmFLAJ0SyIbQfI/OaUNlOIT9mvZZ60RK3wCeObmN pRftxaorpQF/XNL1HZK8R90= =+4E1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--