On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:14:18PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > >I'm in favour! (But are you requesting that aptitude use SI prefixes > >correctly, or that it use IEC (binary) prefixes? > > I think we should go for the binary prefixes. Users will be confused > when they read 1k and notice that the package has 'just' 1000 bytes. > Plus, the 2^n presentation is much more common in the IT world than the > 10^n presentation.
Not for network bandwidth, and less and less for storage space (commercials do understand what a "free" 7.5% bonus means, i.e. selling something as 7.5% larger when it is in fact the same that it used to be). I do agree, that especially in the case of filesystem organisation, it makes much more sens to use the binary units. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
