Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:05:10 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: warnings to users about size of port? Message-ID: <20020112180510.GA11841@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> References: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net>
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* Ken Stailey (kstailey@surfbest.net) 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? Compressed/installed size would be a nice bit of metadata for a port to provide; the ports system can then deal with warning if the download may take a while or it's going to take up a significant portion of the disk. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ - There's nothing very mysterious about you, except that nobody really knows your origin, purpose, or destination. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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