package changes size?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 26.10.2007 16:04, seth vidal wrote:
>
> the problem is for installing packages I'm more worried about how long
> I'll have to wait to download all of these and not 'how big will they be
> on disk'. Do you see what I mean?

And others care about how much space they take on disk.

> if I read 'size will be 1.2GB' when the download is only 400MB I'll be a
> bit worried about downloading it all.

There is afaics enough free space in the line "Total download size: "
Make that something like

Total download size: xyz,0 MByte Size on Disk: 000,0 MByte

That should fit in 80 chars easily and makes everybody happy.

Cu
knurd