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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some important questions to the officals of www.gentoo.org
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:40:54
Message-Id: 20040712202549.GA9281@mustard.zk3.dec.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Some important questions to the officals of www.gentoo.org by Alexander Mieland
1 I can't speak for the merit of your idea or implementation, but here's
2 an idea for you... portage should keep track of how long it has taken
3 in the past to merge various packages on the current machine and use
4 that as an indicator for how long it will take to build the current
5 package. This cache could be preloaded with guesstimated numbers if
6 you want, but the nice thing is that it would be customized to the
7 local machine's typical performance on a per-package basis, and
8 wouldn't require continued network access to function.
9
10 Regards,
11 Aron
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14 Aron Griffis
15 Gentoo Linux Developer

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