From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 21 16:27:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3D137BA9B for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:27:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA53627 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:03:13 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:03:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Feature request: Store dist file size somewhere Message-ID: <20000322000312.A53101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi -porters, A small feature request: would it be possible to store the size of the distfile(s) somewhere in the ports tree, files/size perhaps? I'm in the middle of installing x11-wm/enlightenment on a fresh 4.0 system, and the number of other files it depends on is somewhat excessive. Being able to get some idea of how big the distfiles are beforehand (which could be printed out as part of the fetch-list target) would suggest as to whether or not it's a task to be postponed until there's more free time to watch the modem. No patches yet, because I don't know if someone else is already planning this, or what other people's ideas of the best way to implement it would be. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message