On February 03, 2004 08:51 pm, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> We could however provide a total emerge progress bar based on package
> size. Basically what this would do is get the size of the package and
> generate a per package percentage based on the weight of the package
> size. So if you have 5 packages and the total size of all the downloads
> is 50 Megs, then 50 Megs would represent 100%. If you broke down the
> packages like this:
>
> 1. 10 Megs - 20%
> 2. 5 Megs - 10%
> 3. 5 Megs - 10%
> 4. 10 Megs - 20%
> 5. 20 Megs - 40%
>
> Then after the first package was merged the progress bar would show 20%,
> after the second - 30%, the third - 40%, the fourth - 60%, the fifth -
> 100%. While it is not that accurate (5 megs of rhythmbox would take
> longer than 20 Megs of ximian-artwork, depending on the system), it
> could be at least a general idea. What do you think?
i like it. 'course i have no idea how to make it work, but i like it. maybe
submit it to bugs.gentoo.org?
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