F9 installation screenshot
Arindam Ghosh
makghosh at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 12:58:56 UTC 2008
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Chris Lumens <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:
> > +1 for that...but i would like to suggest that while installation is
> > being done we should have an ETA out there. This would be really cool
>
> 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.
yeah...it was there in FC3/4 etc....but true that network
downloads/install may take variable time and because of lots of
parameters involved it may get deifficult to calculate a precise ETA
:)
-- Arindam
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