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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:00:33 -0500
From:      Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
To:        Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:  Q: warnings to users about size of port?
Message-ID:  <20020112160033.A88923@databits.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020112180510.GA11841@voi.aagh.net>; from tom.hurst@clara.net on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:05:10PM %2B0000
References:  <3C406F07.9080302@surfbest.net> <20020112180510.GA11841@voi.aagh.net>

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++ 12/01/02 18:05 +0000 - Thomas Hurst:
| * Ken Stailey (kstailey@surfbest.net) wrote:
| 
| > If your port takes up, say, more than 40MB of network download and
| > expands into more than 150MB or so should there be warnings about
| > this?
| 
| Compressed/installed size would be a nice bit of metadata for a port to
| provide; the ports system can then deal with warning if the download may
| take a while or it's going to take up a significant portion of the disk.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/4304
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/7023

-pete

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