From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 12 10: 5:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from voi.aagh.net (pc1-hart4-0-cust168.mid.cable.ntl.com [62.254.84.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C511837B417 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16PSWk-00037U-00 for ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:05:10 +0000 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:05:10 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: warnings to users about size of port? Message-ID: <20020112180510.GA11841@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: ports@freebsd.org References: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: Not much. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.5-PRERELEASE (i386) X-Uptime: 6:03PM up 23 days, 2:49, 2 users, load averages: 2.00, 2.01, 2.00 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 * 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