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Bug 829401

Summary: sys-apps/portage: display (swap through) currently running builds in emerge --jobs status message
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: gentoo, james.al.stevenson
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-12-17 07:29:55 UTC 
Right now emerge --jobs shows:

  >>> Jobs: 0 of 11 complete, 1 running               Load avg: 1.29, 1.82, 1.00

With many packages, this often makes it hard to figure out which packages are still building.  It would be nice if it displayed the running process too, like:

  >>> 0/11 done, 1 running (cat/pkg)                      load: 1.29, 1.82, 1.00

and then alternated through running packages, say every two seconds.
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2021-12-18 19:56:25 UTC 
It might look nice to have have it scroll through the list of packages (I've seen wget do a similar horizontal scrolling effect).
Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-12-18 21:06:55 UTC 
Either that or just swap the displayed package name every 2 seconds or so -- I've seen that in some build system.  The latter would avoid increasing throughput.