Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote: > On 1/10/07, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: >>> On 1/10/07, Israel Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On 1/10/07, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: >>>>> Hi people, >>>>> >>>>> I´v been thinking about new feature on pacman. >>>>> >>>>> Why not to show the each package size on the install package list, >>>>> just befere the download/instalation? >>>>> >>>>> Like: <package name> (SIZE) | <package name> (SIZE) | <package name> >>>>> (SIZE) >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance... >>>>> Fusca >>>>> >>>> You can view a package's size with pacman -Si pkgname. >>> Yes, I know but I want to see the package size on the 'pacman -Su' package >>> list. >>> >>> Thanks... >> That's already been asked for a lot of times, but technically there is >> no proper way to implement it. So it was decided by the lords of cobol >> this feature should not be. So say we all. >> >> >> > > Well, there is something here that doesn't match... if I can discover > the size of a package with pacman -Si <package-name>, why can't this > information be showed in pacman -Su? Maybe it takes longer but it > could be an optional parameter. >
Because the packages with -Su have to be downloaded, whereas with -Si the size is extracted from the local package database _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
