On Wednesday 10. January 2007. 18:41, RedShift 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
Could there be an additional step, perhaps turned on optionally, that would do -Si for the package list of -Su? I'm no developer, but from user's perspective, it is quite helpful to know what each package weighs. One more thing I'd like to add is that it would be nice if pacman could show us how much data has already been downloaded when continuing an interupted -Su. foxbunny _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
