From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 12 9:44:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.67.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CBC37B41C for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:44:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (localhost.geeksrus.net [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g0CHiDe22250; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:44:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane@geeksrus.net) Message-Id: <200201121744.g0CHiDe22250@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alan E To: Ken Stailey , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: warnings to users about size of port? Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:44:12 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> In-Reply-To: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:14, Ken Stailey wrote: > If your port takes up, say, more than 40MB of network download and > expands into more than 150MB or so should there be warnings about this? Hmm... what *is* this thing? That would make it one of the largest, if not *the* largest, port/package in the collection. I hope nothing depends on this... People would be really bummed if a dependency caused them to start sucking down a monster like that. -- Alan Eldridge Pmmfmffmmfmp mmmpppppffmpmfpmpppff PmpMpmMpp ppfppp MpfpffmppmppMmpFmmMpm mfpmmmmmfpmpmpppff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message