Here I am, trying to install Gentoo for the first time ever.

I went through the instructions exactly as they are presented in gentoo.org's online installation handbook. The last thing I did so far was run emerge sync. That was about 14 hours ago. The damn thing is still listing packages, one at a time, at a very steady rate of about one per second. I'm not sure what to expect since this is the first time I've installed it. It seems suspicious to me for the thing to be taking so long and also be moving at this super steady rate. On top of that, they all say 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 next to them, which seems kind of odd.

I'll probably find out if everything is going the way it's supposed to before anyone replies to this post, but go ahead anyway. :)