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FS#34341 - Better summary information

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Daniele C. (legolas558) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 11:40 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 31 January 2016, 09:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Output
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.3
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

pacman could display better information than filesize during packages installation.
The filesize nowadays does not matter much, if nothing.
What matters (for example for health concerns of an SD card, SSD or USB stick) is instead number of IO operations.
A better measure would be number of files added/replaced, which I propose with this feature request.

Currently displayed:
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Total Download Size: 302.56 MiB
Total Installed Size: 2261.92 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 38.05 MiB
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Proposed feature:
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Total added: 354 files, 8 directories
Total replaced: 1823 files
Total deleted: 421 files, 4 directories
Total Download Size: 302.56 MiB
Total Installed Size: 2261.92 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 38.05 MiB
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 31 January 2016, 09:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Johannes Löthberg (demize) - Sunday, 21 December 2014, 18:17 GMT
The download size matters for many people, for instance I don’t have a wired connection and can only use 4g tethering through my phone.

Either way, the file stats couldn’t be known until after the packages have been downloaded or if the mtree file for each package was added to the databases or if pacman started using the .files file that some repos have, but it doesn’t really seem useful. And the number of files written on update won’t really make any noticeable impact on your SSD.

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