Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:00:33 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> To: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: warnings to users about size of port? Message-ID: <20020112160033.A88923@databits.net> In-Reply-To: <20020112180510.GA11841@voi.aagh.net>; from tom.hurst@clara.net on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:05:10PM %2B0000 References: <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> <20020112180510.GA11841@voi.aagh.net>
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++ 12/01/02 18:05 +0000 - Thomas Hurst: | * 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. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/4304 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/7023 -pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)] finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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