On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> 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
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