The Armchair Politician

From the debian-devel mailing list:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : apt-gentoo
Version : 0.0.1
* URL : http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~mma29/apt-gentoo/
* License : GPL version 2 or above
Description : enhanced package installation

apt-gentoo enhances the Debian package installation experience to make it fully competitive with newly-popular source-based distributions.

As packages are installed, apt-gentoo automatically downloads their build logs from the buildd network. The logs are then slowly scrolled past on the user’s terminal to simulate building the software on the local machine.

apt-gentoo optionally, and by default, gives increased realism by spinning the CPU in a tight loop between build log lines, and writing large files to disk.

An additional utility apt-gentoo-benchmark is included to tune the delay loops for your hardware by finding the length of time taken by typical compiler and linker runs. (On slow or low-memory hardware we recommend leaving these values at their defaults.)

A preliminary package of apt-gentoo is available at http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~mma29/apt-gentoo/

I really can’t think of anything additional to say that could in any way compliment the amount of wonderful that this post was.