On 4 Apr 2009, at 08:56, 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.
Back in the day people were asking for this when I was installing
Gentoo from stage 1 on Pentium III 500mhz machines.
I read the -dev list at that time, and have seen the responses
explaining why Neil's is an entirely accurate characterisation.
What we did then was just left our emerges running overnight. I find
it hard to believe that - in these days when many on this list will be
using Core 2 Duo machines - this is really such a problem. We're no
longer talking of emerges taking days or even weeks (yes, I have seen
`emerge -e world` take 3 weeks or so!) we're now talking in terms of
minutes per package. Do you really need to know EXACTLY how many? Or
can you just accept a little patience as the cost of using Gentoo?
Stroller.
