usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> Also, consider the OS X startup progress bar, back when OS X had one: originally it was very accurate, but by Tiger it had been changed to just advance at a more or less constant rate regardless what was happening; the boot process frequently would complete before the progress bar had gotten to the end. Just some indication that something is happening is useful to the user, even if it’s not completely accurate.

I thought I remembered hearing that it worked by timing the previous
boot and using that to calculate the current boot progress. That's
fairly similar to the line counting idea.


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