On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris Lumens <clumens <at> redhat.com> writes: > > We used to have that, but removed it. The reason is that our estimates > > are never going to be very good based on all sorts of things like time > > to download packges (in HTTP/FTP cases) and how long it takes to run a > > package's pre/post scriptlet. > > In fact, in my experience, the estimates have always been complete nonsense > (off by a factor of 2 in either direction or things like that) even for fairly > predictable HDD installs, so IMHO you did the right thing. :-) I remember it *always* seemed to estimate 45 minutes, whatever I was doing. :) MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
