From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lq1zH-0008N8-FG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:16:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3845FE09CC; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FD4E09CC for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A732565073 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:16:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.437 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.437 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.162, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sj0hcwAB1LDO for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF9D64A52 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lq1yv-00012B-Qy for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:16:05 +0000 Received: from athedsl-46785.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.160.15]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:16:05 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-46785.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:16:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you? Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:16:00 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <49D69ACA.1030405@gmail.com> <20090404085641.3ec7d904@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-46785.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <20090404085641.3ec7d904@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b67b8d17-e4ed-4f21-80f9-7eb64a5d8fc9 X-Archives-Hash: d5b8543f8fe192a3b6dbf6b6850eba05 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:24:58 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: >> [...] >> - Difficulty of predicting how long some new package compilations (with >> dependencies, upgrades and revdep-rebuilds etc) will actually take >> (genlop -t only knows about individual packages that have been emerged >> before) > > That's got to be harder than providing an accurate weather forecast. Time would be impossible to predict. But compilation progress might be feasible. CMake does this, for example. It's nice to know I'm about 70% done with the build.