Why is the time removed from the package intallation window

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 21:00:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:20 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:54:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Olivier Galibert (galibert at pobox.com) said: 
> > > I noticed now that I'm starting to actually install systems with f8
> > > that the time used/remaining indication has been removed from the text  
> > > installation screen.  I'm curious, why is that?
> > 
> > It's non-trivial to render accurately (it wasn't particularly accurate
> > before...)
> 
> T'was better than nothing though.  The time at the end at least was
> accurate and gave you an idea on how long the next installation would
> take.  I didn't realize I'd have to time it by hand.

<almost done> --- <go take a coffee break> --- <how about a nap?> ---
<come back tomorrow>

-RN

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