new install: how can i not have enough space?

[Tom Lane]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
> Quoting François Cami <fcami at fedoraproject.org>:
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:53:38 -0400
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>> argh!  i just started a new install on my laptop, so i could divvy
>>> things up into numerous logical volumes.  i selected a pile of
>>> software, only to be told that my selected packages require 4698 MB of
>>> space and i don't have that much available.
>>> 
>>> excuse me?  i have separate LVs for /, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and
>>> /opt, with the *smallest* of those being 5G (/usr is 16G, /home is
>>> 50G, all the rest are 5G).  how exactly do i not have enough space
>>> with 16G for /usr?
>> 
>> F10, rawhide ?

>    ok, i could have mentioned that it's an x86_64 install of f11 beta. :-)

In that case it sounds like a bug introduced in the recent anaconda
rewrite.  Have you looked in bugzilla?  If you don't see something
similar there already, file it.  (It might well be there already.)

			regards, tom lane