Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Followup-For: Bug #175938
> uh oh... "may" ... then I hope it has a negative sign attached... It will say "Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8192B will be freed." Happy? As for your concerns over the phrasing of the message, I don't think it's all that important. After a couple times using apt-get, it becomes obvious what they mean. I don't think writing software that is so verbose it doesn't need a manual is a bad idea, and if you don't read the manual, you have to be willing to figure things out. OTOH, maybe a wording change could make things clearer: "... of archives. Unpacking will use xMB." That implies that the unpacking of the package will increase your disk usage by that much, rather than that after unpacking, x amount of space will be used, total.
