I've found that many people in #gentoo ask how long it takes to compile various items in portage. So to give everyone a break, why not include Bash Equivalent times in portage? it's just a number that can be echoed when something is emerge'd or emerge -s'd... then people can try to predict how long things will take roughly. The reason i submit this now is because it seems very easy to implement, and i think a lot of people could use this functionality.
Because it's not that easy, different CFLAGS and USE flags make a comparison very hard.
it just has to be proportional right?, so if you say 5 bash units with -march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer, and your bash unit = 5min... if i use a different set of flags, the times should still be proportional to my own bash time right? at least the ratio shouldn't be TOO far off right?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10365 ***
