[pacman-dev] [RFC] [PATCH] Implement a du --apparent-size equivalent

[Allan McRae]

On 17/06/16 01:37, Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 13.06.2016 22:07, Alastair Hughes wrote:
>>> I really don't want to provide a binary just to do this.
>>
>> I'm cross compiling; in that case, the host system has a different du
>> than the target system
> 
> How about implementing the functionality in something like awk or perl?
> Those should be sufficiently fast and widely available. makepkg already
> uses awk so maybe that would be a good fit.
> 

Because history!

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-March/015293.html