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On 09/06/03 Douglas Russell wrote: |
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> On Saturday 06 September 2003 9:46 pm, Thomas de Grenier de Latour |
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> > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:50:42 +0200 |
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> > Marius Mauch <genone@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > > A accurate progress bar is nearly impossible as compile times |
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> > > differ from package to package |
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> > Maybe maintainers could fill in the ebuilds a kind of approximative |
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> > compile time from their experience, which would be relative to a |
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> > well know reference time (a kernel compilation with default options, |
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> > or something like this). It doesn't need to be very accurate. |
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> This has also been discussed recently, I'm not sure if there was a |
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> resolution. I think it came down to what was happening about gentoo |
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> stats...as of course, an approx value on a Athlon XP 2800+ with a gig |
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> of RAM is not going to help someone on a P133 with 32 MBs of RAM. |
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> Stats would allow a lookup against previous emerges done on similar |
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> spec'd machines. |
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And don't forget the impact of USE flags. |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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