Re: package changes size?

[David Timms <dtimms iinet net au>]

David Boles wrote:
> on 10/26/2007 6:25 AM, David Timms wrote:
> > Peter Gordon wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 21:45 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> > And it would be nice for both of them to "talk" in the same language or 
> > better show both eg:
> > package      download size    install size
> > fred-1.0.1     100kB             665kB
> >
> > Along with the totals for the transaction set:
> >               4.678MB          13.434MB
>
>
> You are joking here correct? You 'expect' a compressed file to 'announce'
> it's installed size?
Yeah.
It wouldn't need to be perfect {eg when scripts generate further data 
during the install}.
What OS does that?
Like zipinfo. Maybe a new feature to include in rpm metadata itself ?
Maybe Fedora needs to be first modern one ?
DT.