package changes size?
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Oct 26 15:01:50 UTC 2007
On 26.10.2007 16:06, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:03:10 +0200
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>> most people are afaics
>> used to compression when it comes do downloads and thus won't wonder
>> why "sum of all packages != download size".
> Don't count on that. I'm extremely used to my download tools telling
> me how much data I'm about to download, and showing appropriate
> progress bars as such. If I had to just guess at what the compressed
> size was that would be bad.
That why I suggest to show how much yum is about to download in total.
E.g. in this output:
"""
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
compiz-fusion-extras x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc8 fedora 2.0 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
"""
just do
- compiz-fusion-extras x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc8 fedora 2.0 M
+ compiz-fusion-extras x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc8 fedora 4.4 M
because that where the info "size on disk" is IMHO way more important
then the download size. In addition maybe do
-Total download size: 2.0 M
-Total download size: 2.0 M Total size on disk: 4.4 M
This should make most people happy IMHO, because you get the amount yum is
going to download and avoid this:
# yum install compiz-fusion-extras
[...]
Installing:
compiz-fusion-extras x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc8 fedora 2.0 M
[...]
# yum remove compiz-fusion-extras
[...]
Removing:
compiz-fusion-extras x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc8 installed 4.4 M
[...]
CU
knurd
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