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Re: [PATCH] setup: add "Size" column to chooser (take 2)


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Here's a new iteration of this patch.  It incorporates Max's review and
adds comments in the size computation logic.

The size is now computed as follows: if the binary or the source package
is selected, the total size of the selected packages is used.  Otherwise,
the size of the binary package is shown (if one exists), else the size of
the source (if one exists), else "?".  As Max, I'm not sure this is the
right solution -- comments welcome.

I've had a chance to build and play with it now - and overall, I think it's rather nice! :-)


One last thing, though:
Should we keep the sizes in bytes, so that the length of the number is an immediate visual indication of package size, or would use of kilo/mega suffices be better, combined with rounding to 3 significant digits, to minimize the horizontal space used?


Max.


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