emerge splat
splat -s <package>

Don.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:25:49PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> 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
> 



-- 
Don Seiler             rizzo@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rizzo/