Richard Braakman wrote: > Is a pregenerated du file necessary? You already assume that you have > the package at hand, so you might as well collect size information from > the package directly. That way, you can also handle differences in block > sizes. And it means that you don't have to change every package.
[ This was all discussed before, about 6 months (?) ago. I don't really want to rehash that discussion.. but.. ] Well collecting the data from the package does impose a delay because you have to unpack each file in it. That may or may not be acceptable. Of course this does lead into one weakness in Manoj's proposal: since the info is not in the Packages file, you must still download the whole set of packages before you can be told if they'll all fit on your system. -- see shy jo
