Portage is superb, but it lacks one thing that could make it brilliant. A progress bar that states how far it has got into the compile of a certain package. It's something that annoys me about portage, not knowing when my package will finish compiling. Like on a download (wget), you get a little progress bar to state how far it has got in the download, with the percentage, speed and ETA next to it. (======> ) 75% 50kbps ETA: 30s Wouldn't it be great if compiling had this ability, imagine being able to actually know how far the compile is in, the the ETA. (=========> ) 43% compiling: kdebase-3.2.1 ETA: 20m5s I hope you take this idea into reccomendation, it'd be excellent! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This has been suggested so many times. It is not feasible to try and work out how far through a compile we are. There is just no sensible way to do it. Suggest this is closed as WONTFIX
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48418 ***
