On 5/6/07, Nathan Jones
This patch adds a -z|--showsize option to the -Q and -S commands. The option displays the size of individual packages. This is something that I have wanted for a while, and there is a feature request for it [1].
This is great, thanks for the patch. I just pushed it to my GIT tree, it should show up soon on archlinux.org. http://projects.archlinux.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=summary If you didn't know already, future development has shifted to GIT, so I had to adopt your patch slightly to match up with the changed code there. I made a few other small changes as well, but nothing huge.
I'm sure that everyone does not want to add too many flags to pacman, so would it be preferable to have a DisplaySize option in pacman.conf instead?
No one else on the list has said anything about this, so this is a request for comment. If you feel like it would be the better way to go, feel free to submit a patch (knowing that your first one is already implemented).
There are quite a few places where dividing by 1024 takes place to display the size, and this patch adds a few more. Would it be best to create a humanize_size() function to switch to the appropriate measure (KB, MB, or GB)?
I wanted to do this at some point as well. If you want to take a crack at it and stick it in util.c, feel free to do so. There are two separate things that are done with it, however- sizes and speeds, so it would have to accommodate both. Thanks again! -Dan