Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:24:58 +0300, Arttu V. wrote:
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- 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.
