Please don't remove size info from pkgs.
As intimated to below, I (who has no official vote :) think that debian
packages should have enough information in them to allow the determination
of how much disk space would be used by installing, or freed by removing,
said package.
To the end that the packages which are selected can all be queried to determine
how much space is used in which partition, please keep this info. The idea
I have comes from a sunos install, which had packages that would show tabular
data showing exactly (or nearly so) how much space each partition would lose
to the package. Dselect and deity (or any other package manager) would
benefit by being able to show on each selected package, in each category or
level-of-importance and for the sum total of all selected packages, how
much space would be taken in each mounted partition.
If this were the case, then deity, dselect or something else could also show
the space left on each mounted partition, to better allow a debian user to
definitively determine whether s/he had the space required to install any
given set of packages at a glance.
In my opinion, this would be _very_ helpful.
-Jim
hamish@debian.org just clued me in as follows:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 05:15:18PM -0800, Jim wrote:
> > >Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked
> > >for an option for the "dpkg -l", so that the size of each package
> > >would be shown, but found nothing.
> >
> > I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity should
> > give me a breakdown of the space that would be used by partition, of each
> > individual package and by any given group of packages.
>
> Please bring this up on debian-policy; it was only just decided
> to remove the very information from packages that can get you this
> information easily.
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