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Re: Using standardized SI prefixes



Hi Thijs!

You wrote:

> 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?

Afaik, we are talking about making the use of the prefixes consistent
over all of Debian, so that everywhere the program says MB, you know
exactly what that means.  Doing everywhere except in apt would kind of
defeat the purpose, because then you still can't be sure...

Bas.

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