On 4/4/09, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > Do you really need to know EXACTLY how many? Or > can you just accept a little patience as the cost of using Gentoo?
I'd be happy for a modest, rough guesstimator. A "Gentoo emerge weather forecast"-gauge/meter if you will. :) I'm currently running boxes from ~1Ghz up to this four-year-old single-core AthlonXP 3500+ (and thinking about getting one of 'em blisteringly fast Phenom IIs or Core2Duos), so I may be an anachronism with my systems. I think in theory one could probably use the kernel's bogomips value, CPU count, source package language and size, and maybe some known few key system package's emerge times to guesstimate the emerge time of the rest. It could provide, e.g., a guessed worst and best scenario. Naturally it couldn't do much about the potential revdep-rebuild part, though. Darn, maybe I have to allocate some time to try to build one myself? Just don't hold your breath while waiting nor keep hopes too high ... ;) -- Arttu V.
