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Re: help :}
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 09:38:25 +1100
- Subject: Re: help :}
- References: <05b801c1739e$02268370$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: <cygwin-apps@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: RFI: help :}
> Can any say, what the size field in installed.db is _used_ for.
>
> AFAICT it's completely useless. It records the size of the tarball
used
> to install the package. We don't use it anywhere...
>
> I'd like to remove that as part of my trimming-unneeded-code blitz.
... and leave it as 0 to prevent breaking cygcheck.
Rob