On Monday 11 June 2007 20:06, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I agree with the "sounds stupid" part, although I don't belive this is a > valid argument. What I don't believe is your 80 colums argument. Could > you please name a few of the *many* programs which would have to drop > information, precision, or significantly change their display to use the > "KiB" unit?
What I'm missing in this request is the practical use. The original example given at the start of this thread was: Package: filezilla State: not installed Version: 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 2134k Can you tell me in which cases you would make a different decision if this was either 2134*1000 or 2134*1024 bytes? In either case, ~ 2 million bytes suits your requirement, or it doesn't. This sounds to me like solving a non-problem, unless you can of course tell me in which situations adding the "B" or "iB" in the field above would solve a real question. thanks, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]