[pacman-dev] [patch] Display size for packages

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/5/14, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On 5/6/07, Nathan Jones <nathanj at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > 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).

IMHO pacman.conf option will be better because turning this feature
on/off depends more user preferences than on specific case.
IMO only options that are useful to have overriden at any time quickly
are worth to go into commandline.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)