On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 05:15:18PM -0800, Jim wrote: > >Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked > >for an option for the "dpkg -l", so that the size of each package > >would be shown, but found nothing. > > I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity should > give me a breakdown of the space that would be used by partition, of each > individual package and by any given group of packages.
Please bring this up on debian-policy; it was only just decided to remove the very information from packages that can get you this information easily. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
