Re: New version of master2files
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:20:17 -0500 (EST), "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> said:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> writes:
>> A small question: when choosing tasks, the size of tasks is (and
>> has always been) meaningless since you can choose several tasks and
>> some packages are counted several times. Isn't it a problem?
> We ought at least to explain this in the header, with something like
> this:
> The size shown for each task is the sum of the sizes of its
> packages. If you choose two tasks that share some packages, the
> actual disk requirement will be less than the sum of the sizes for
> the two tasks.
Yeah. I'll mention this in my documentation.
> It would be nice to make the sizes of the packages available at run
> time, and calculate the total disk requirement on the fly.
Urk, sounds complex.
> Here is another item for the wishlist:
> Keep the one-line package description around for run time, so it
> can be shown along with the package name when the user asks for
> details on a profile or task.
Yeah, well, chalk it up as another problem which would be solved with
my 'metapackage' idea?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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