Andrew McMillan <and...@morphoss.com> writes: > I'm happy with kibibytes, but on the other hand I'm also happy with > kilobytes if the code is changed to actually report 1,000's of bytes.
I think it's more common to deal with kibibytes for computing-related things. Having dpkg present Installed-Size in different units than, say, ls -h produces would I think be confusing. (ls -h --si exists, but I think it's relatively uncommon.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
