package changes size?
David Timms
dtimms at iinet.net.au
Fri Oct 26 11:55:54 UTC 2007
David Boles wrote:
> on 10/26/2007 6:25 AM, David Timms wrote:
>> Peter Gordon wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 21:45 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> You are joking here correct? You 'expect' a compressed file to 'announce'
> it's installed size?
Yeah.
It wouldn't need to be perfect {eg when scripts generate further data
during the install}.
What OS does that?
Like zipinfo. Maybe a new feature to include in rpm metadata itself ?
Maybe Fedora needs to be first modern one ?
DT.
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