Hi,
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> The discussion in the bug report seems to have reached the conclusion
>> that this can be handled simply by modifications to dinstall and apt
>> (or other dselect methods as applicable): that is, to have dinstall
>> generate a DiskUsage.gz file along with Packages.gz or some such and
>> have apt handle it, without any modification to any existing packages,
>> and hence policy. As such, perhaps this should be reassigned as a wishlist
>> bug against ftp.debian.org and apt?
Jason> Could we try not to make policy that mandates something that
Jason> cannot be readily implemented? It is kind of silly to make
Jason> something policy that nobody is going to actually implement.
I think you misunderstand. "without any modification to any
existing packages, and hence policy.". As I read it, that means that
no packages need be modified, and thus this is not policy. And such is
the case.
Jason> Somebody should sit down and write all the scripts and
Jason> modifications needed before trying to mandate this with policy
Jason> - besides a disk usage index does not really strike me as
Jason> something belonging in the policy domain.
The scripts and all have been written -- all that is in the
proposal. The only thing needed is to modify dinstall, and then the
package selection/installation tools.
Since this is not policies domain is precisely why the
proposal is stagnat. I shall purge it the next time I am working on
the BTS.
It would be neat, though, if apt and dinstall were so
modified, and could give an accurate picture of space requirements
all customized to the local partitioning scheme, as demonstrated in
that proposal.
manoj
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