On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 20:56, gabriel wrote: > 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?
I'm a dev, I'll see if I can get some other people on the idea... Nathaniel
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