Re: package changes size?

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on 10/26/2007 6:25 AM, David Timms wrote:
> Peter Gordon wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 21:45 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>>> The package gets reported with a different size depending on if it is being installed or removed.
>> When it is being removed, the size reported is the total disk space used
>> by its files. However, when it is being installed, the size reported is
>> that of the RPM itself, which contains a compressed tarball of these
>> files - hence, being almost always being smaller in size than the sum of
>> the individual files as a whole.
> And it would be nice for both of them to "talk" in the same language or 
> better show both eg:
> package      download size    install size
> fred-1.0.1     100kB             665kB
> 
> Along with the totals for the transaction set:
>               4.678MB          13.434MB


You are joking here correct? You 'expect' a compressed file to 'announce'
it's installed size? What OS does that?
-- 

  David

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