help :}

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Thu Nov 22 14:38:00 GMT 2001


----- 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



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