On 06/03/14 01:50, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:00:16PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> > Printing package size is useful for maintenance. Indeed, the first entry >> > on the >> > wiki is focused on this topic: >> > >> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Tips#Maintenance >> > >> > None of the proposed solutions will allow you to: >> > - select packages; >> > - work on the output of other commands yielding a list of packages; >> > - change the sorting; >> > - be locale independent; >> > - print a grand total; >> > - be fast (most solutions are wasting a lot of time -- only expac is >> > faster); >> > - not rely on any third-party tool. >> > >> > Pacsize is a POSIX shell script that is generic enough to enclose all these >> > features (and more). > I truly do not understand why you've chosen to write this in POSIX shell > when every other shell script in the pacman repo is written in bash. A > lot of the constructs in your script are made considerably uglier and > more fragile than needed because of this decision. >
If you can convince the author to provide a patch(set) to add expac into src/util, I'd be more than happy to accept it. Allan
