On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 at 14:57, Joey Hess wrote about "weekly policy summary":
> A pre-install required space checking mechanism for Debian packages > (#37999) > * Stalled for 2 weeks. > * Proposed on 19 May 1999 by Manoj Srivastava. > * The idea is to enable tools like apt to check if a set of packages > will fit on a disk, taking various partitions into account. This > will require adding something like the output of du to the package > or to the Packages file or to a new file that can be downloaded. > The details are still being hashed out. I will second this, simply because I like features and this one certainly can't hurt. I think it should be an option though (to save the time involved in processing) for those of us who *know* we have enough disk space available. -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (410) 602-1350 Project Genesis http://www.torah.org/
