Description of Problem: While installing beta for a new 7.2 distro on Alpha anaconda initially told me that an estimated time to install "everything" was in an order of 10 minutes. From that moment the estimate was constantly corrected upwards to stabilize around 35 minutes mark, which was about right, but only when around 60% of all packages was installed. With version 7.1 was this big initial overshot but it was rather quickly going down to a some reasonable estimate in 30-35 minutes range. It appears that this was a better way to do that.
It's a guestimate That value is guessed on how fast it was able to handle a package so a small package like MAKEDEV though fast to physically xfer over, consumes a lot of additional time running through it's pre/post install scripts. Big packages like kernel-source skew the result because they xfer over quickly and don't execupt any pre/post scripts. Phil =--=