Re: Bug#37999: du -S'ing the archive (was: Re: weekly policy summary)
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The discussion in the bug report seems to have reached the conclusion
> that this can be handled simply by modifications to dinstall and apt
> (or other dselect methods as applicable): that is, to have dinstall
> generate a DiskUsage.gz file along with Packages.gz or some such and
> have apt handle it, without any modification to any existing packages,
> and hence policy. As such, perhaps this should be reassigned as a wishlist
> bug against ftp.debian.org and apt?
Could we try not to make policy that mandates something that cannot be
readily implemented? It is kind of silly to make something policy that
nobody is going to actually implement.
Somebody should sit down and write all the scripts and modifications
needed before trying to mandate this with policy - besides a disk usage
index does not really strike me as something belonging in the policy
domain.
Jason
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