Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:15:23 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release schedule for 2.2.7 Message-ID: <199806252015.WAA19662@semyam.dinoco.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:16:03 PDT." <6852.898632963@time.cdrom.com>
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> > To the latter I think putting the size to the left of a package in > > KByte and MByte (depending on the size) will be the right thing. It > > Um, the package name is already the menu prompt string and trying to > put anything "to the left" of that will only cause you major woe on > the side-effects. I think you need to go look at libdialog a bit next Today I noted that in the dialog which asks if I really want to install the packages the path in the ports collection gets shown, too. So I will place size information there. > before you go making any interface decisions. It imposes its own set > of constraints which you need to be aware of. :-) Year, sounds a bit restricting. But one can cure everything one way or the other. :-) Actually somehow the path must have gotten in so I can replace that one with my size information. The hardest part will be marking the needed dependencies and doing it in a way which avoids accidental unmarking of those still needed by something else. My plan with this is that the user gets show which packages really get installed (more transparency to the process than now) and it makes it easier to really say how much space adding a package will consume. If A needs B and something else (lets name it C) already has B as a dependency A adds just size(A) and not size(A)+size(B). Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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