package changes size?

[David Timms]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 21:45 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> The package gets reported with a different size depending on if it is being installed or removed.
> 
> When it is being removed, the size reported is the total disk space used
> by its files. However, when it is being installed, the size reported is
> that of the RPM itself, which contains a compressed tarball of these
> files - hence, being almost always being smaller in size than the sum of
> the individual files as a whole.
And it would be nice for both of them to "talk" in the same language or 
better show both eg:
package      download size    install size
fred-1.0.1     100kB             665kB

Along with the totals for the transaction set:
              4.678MB          13.434MB

DaveT.