It would be nice if "genlop -c --progress" (and -P) or --asciibar, --bar would show an ascii bar like wget or pv do. When using it with watch genlop would seem to have an updated bar. |=======>------,------->|....! min ETA max The description should imho be included. Showing min, ETA, max (e.g. of the last 10 merges) would also be a workaround for #658940 . With always nearly the same emerge time it could be: |=======>-------------,>|! min ETA max or: |=======>-------------->| min->ETA<-max ETA should imo be the central, most important information: |,======>-------------->|..............>>> min ETA max Reproducible: Always