Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

>Philippe Trottier wrote:
>  
>
>>--time option would be nice as it could give a reference to how
>>much time does it take for each packages
>>    
>>
>
> On a related note I think it would be nice to store the time needed for
> each ebuild to merge and use this information in the output of "emerge
> -vp <package>":
>
>   wopr-mobile ~ # emerge -vp openoffice-ximian
>
>   These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
>   Calculating dependencies ...done!
>   [ebuild     U ] app-office/openoffice-ximian-1.3.3 [1.3.2]
>                   -debug +gnome -kde -ooo-kde  993 kB  0d:06h:30m
>
>   Total size of downloads: 993 kB
>   Total time estimated: 0d:06h:30m
>
> Just a thought,
>Sebastian
>
>  
>
How are you going to effectively measure the times? CFLAGS can slow your 
emerge, or speed it up quite significantly if you don't/do set them 
correctly. I think this is probably why portage devs never took this 
into account (or maybe they did and I'm just not aware of it). As for 
genlop, that is best used as an "after the fact" log parser, so that you 
can give other users estimates of how long compilation takes based on 
what their compile time was. My 2 cents(r).

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