[Yum-devel] [PATCH] report total download size

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:50 +0100, Gijs Hollestelle wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:50:08 -0600, Michael Favia
> <michael.favia at insitesinc.com> wrote:
> > Performing the following to resolve dependencies:
> > 
> >  Action   Package         Arch  Version     Repository  Size
> >  ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Install  mysql           i386  3.23.58-14  updates     2.8 M
> >  Install  perl-DBI        i386  1.40-5      base        3.0 M
> >  Install  perl-DBD-MySQL  i386  2.9003-5    base        5.0 M
> 
> While I agree with Seth that this is not really necessary: it does not
> provide any new information, but just provides the information in a
> better looking way. I must admit that it  looks very good for this
> particular transaction (where package names are relativly short).
> 
> Do you have a suggestion what this should look like for a transaction
> that has both short and some very long package name and versions, for
> example kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-1.667-1.0.6629-0.lvn.1, in such a
> way that the complete table still looks nice and that won't be too
> hard to implement (ie does not require complex formatting libraries)?
> 
> If so I'd be willing to implement this, in order to make yum look a
> bit prettier :-)
> 
One other problem - packages you don't have to download still have to be
listed for the transaction.

Listing them as a 0M Size is just kinda silly.

-sv