F9 installation screenshot

Mary Ellen Foster foster at in.tum.de
Tue Apr 29 14:30:50 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at 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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Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh




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