2007/11/14, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:57:49PM -0500, Justin Lampley wrote:
This feature can be beneficial in many ways, but mostly it is a good indicator (at least for me) of whether I should check out the change log of the program. With minor version increases, it is most likely minor updates or bug fixes, but if it is a major version increase, many things might have been changed that are worth checking up on before going through with the install.
For me too, it's a very valuable information that I missed several times in pacman (apt-get probably had it, but I don't remember how it was displayed..).
So the only thing that bothers me is the way it's displayed, I don't find it very readable. But I don't have a better suggestion yet, besides maybe taking inspiration from other package managers.
I suggest this: Remove: lib32-gcc Total Removed Size: 0.00 MB Targets: lib32-gcc-libs-4.2.2-2 [New] 1.05 MB audacious-player-1.4.0-1 [1.3.2-4] 1.07 MB audacious-plugins-1.4.0-2 [1.3.5-5.1] 1.68 MB eclipse-pydev-1.3.10-1 [1.3.9-1] 3.39 MB fakeroot-1.8.4-1 [1.7.1-3] 0.06 MB glibc-2.7-6 [2.7-4] 10.78 MB glproto-1.4.9-1 [1.4.8-1] 0.02 MB hal-info-0.20071030-1 [0.20071011-1] 0.03 MB imagemagick-6.3.6.10-1 [6.3.6.6-1] 2.30 MB lib32-glibc-2.7-5 [2.6.1-2] 3.64 MB libarchive-2.4.0-1 [2.2.6-2] 0.32 MB libgphoto2-2.4.0-2 [2.3.1-3] 1.36 MB libmcs-0.6.0-1 [0.4.1-2] 0.02 MB libsamplerate-0.1.2-4 [0.1.2-3] 0.20 MB lincity-ng-1.1.2-1 [1.1.1-1] 29.16 MB lm_sensors-2.10.5-2 [2.10.5-1] 0.32 MB tcl-8.4.16-2 [8.4.16-1] 1.63 MB tk-8.4.16-2 [8.4.16-1] 1.40 MB ttf-dejavu-2.21-1 [2.20-1] 3.79 MB xf86-video-ati-6.7.195-3 [6.7.195-1] 3.67 MB xorg-server-1.4-5 [1.4-4] 7.25 MB xpdf-3.02_pl2-1 [3.02_pl1-1] 0.49 MB Total Download Size: 73.64 MB Total Installed Size: 91.08 MB Every package is printed on a new line, pkgname-pkgver-pkgrel, old pkgver-pkgname and size are separated with 2 spaces. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)