An un-fun situation I experienced today: --- Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-devel/clang-common-16.0.3 [[~15 minutes of dead air here, except the loadavg in the terminal title updating occasionally]] >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/glibc-2.37-r3 >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-devel/gcc-13.1.0-r1 >>> Running pre-merge checks for dev-lang/rust-bin-1.69.0 >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-apps/portage-3.0.47 --- It turns out it was downloading [media-fonts/]noto-20230430.tar.gz (1GB), which I wouldn't have ever guessed if I hadn't dug into what it was doing using htop. I don't have a good proposal for how the UI should look, but right now _everything_ related to fetching distfiles seems to be gated behind --verbose. Could we at least have the "Total download size:" line display unconditionally? That's in line with what most other distros' package managers do.
Indeed, I've been hit by that as well.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 760893 ***
