On Mon, June 11, 2007 22:11, Eduard Bloch wrote: >> 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. > > Excuse me? Pretty simple example: you have only 2.03 GB (real GB) > remaining free space (seen in some disk info tool) on your harddisk and you > are fetching a 2GB file (2 fake GB, 2GiB in fact). So what, it breaks > about 99% and displays some very unexpected message.
We are talking about tools like aptitude here, or at least, the OP does. Did you ever have 2 GB free and decided to install a package that would exactly fill that space in? I'm not quite convinced that real world situations exist where you'd use the installed-size parameter of a package in that amount of significance. Even more because the size of a package can grow a bit due to generated files and the like. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]