Estimate How Long to Compile Gentoo Package

If you want to see an estimate for how much longer a package will take to compile, try genlop.

 emerge -av app-portage/genlop

Here is an example with php installing

genlop -c

 Currently merging 62 out of 76

 * dev-lang/php-8.3.29

       current merge time: 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
       ETA: unknown.

I chose this example because genlop doesn't always work. I still have it installed on most systems and think it's a core application in the gentoo stack.

If you prefer, you can watch the process autorefresh which is nice sometimes too.

watch -n 1 genlop -c