On 1/10/07, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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
But it shows the total download size. It must have the individual file sizes to compute the total size. Of course, I am talking without a deep knowledge about the inners of pacman. I'm just joining the facts... -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
