[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/2] contrib: adding pacsize

Pierre Neidhardt ambrevar at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 12:30:41 EST 2014


On 14-03-05 11:51:29, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:43:10PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > On 14-03-05 17:23:27, Florian Pritz wrote:
> > > On 05.03.2014 17:22, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > > >>  $ pacman -Qi linux | grep Installed                                         [0][1078]
> > > >>  Installed Size :  67.12 MiB
> > > > 
> > > > This is actually something I've been wondering for a while: how do you change
> > > > the size unit?
> > > 
> > > They are hard coded for a few places, automatic in others. Automatic
> > > units work in a way that the resulting number is <=2048 or something.
> > 
> > Ugh, I do not get it. By me:
> > 
> >   $ pacman -Qi linux | grep Installed
> >   Installed Size : 68733.00 KiB
> 
> Then you're not running from -git. We changed this back in October in
> 6405ecb2599.

Oopsy! Anyway, some scripts (pacsysclean at least) had support for various size
units long before that. I wonder why.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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