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FS#28086 - Please restore size units of pacman3 to pacman4

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by vyacheslav (galdralag) - Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 14:36 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 20:23 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
pacman3 shows package size in KB or MB.
pacman4 shows package size in KiB and MiB.

It is unavailable to see NORMAL names in size units without any "i" in names of kilobytes and megabytes.
I like pacman and archlinux. Pacman it is the better of other package managers in other linuxes.
But these KiB's and MiB's it is very annoying.

Steps to Reproduce:
Install any package by pacman3 and by pacman4 and see size and speed unit names.
   size_units.png (24.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 20:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 16:33 GMT
Annoying? You can't spare one extra column on your screen? We're not changing this back, sorry.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60027
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 16:54 GMT
dear vyacheslav, please do not encourage abuse of SI prefixes.
see http://stopabusingsiprefixes.org/
Comment by vyacheslav (galdralag) - Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 20:14 GMT
I knew it. But I don't need SI prefixes I need "computerized" prefixes. It was many years and someone decided to change this. It is not clear why.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 20:23 GMT
Um... SI prefixes are what you asked for, and now you are saying you don't need them?

"MB" : SI as "MiB" : IEC

Regardless, this is not changing, period. We've always divided by 1024 and we will continue to do so; the labels now reflect reality. This is not a bug and nothing will be changing.

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