[pacman-dev] Disk Space

[Matthew Wood]

I'm a little new to package management coding, so forgive my stupid
question, but I'm wondering if there is a way to get the current package
size.  For example, like Aarons example, if foobar-1.0 is installed, and we
got the size of foobar then we should have a reasonable size estimate of
foobar-1.1.  If we took that estimate, multiply by 10% and compare that
number to the disk space remaining, would that catch 99% of the errors?  If
there isn't a current mechanism we could have a function that adds the total
size of all the installed apps files and return that to the upgrade
function.  What about that coupled with a prompt if disk space seems low,
say below 100-200 mb?  I'd be willing to help with whatever patches are
necessary for this.