[arch] Size (installed)

[Jason Chu]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:47:25 +0100
Damir Perisa <damir.perisa at solnet.ch> wrote:

> Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:19, Jason Chu wrote:
>  | Size (compressed) : 686444
> 
> What would be a really nice new feature is the installed size (non 
> compressed) to be recorded and stored in the db. this way, the user 
> may really know, how much of the harddrive will be used and how much 
> a pkg uses up. it is even possible later on to track usage with this 
> system.

Do you mean before or after it's installed?  Once it's installed you
can do this:

[jchu at wingnut ~]$ pacman -Qi openssh
Name           : openssh
Version        : 4.5p1-1
Groups         : None
Packager       : Thomas Baechler <thomas at archlinux.org>
URL            : http://www.openssh.org/portable.html
License        : None
Architecture   : i686
Size           : 1546015
Build Date     : Wed Nov  8 19:56:04 2006 UTC
Install Date   : Mon Nov 13 19:45:19 2006 UTC
Install Script : No
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : openssl>=0.9.8b pam tcp_wrappers zlib 
Required By    : hdup hdup hdup 
Conflicts With : None
Description    : A Secure SHell server/client

Jason
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