Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?
Date	2019-06-28 15:10 +0200
Message-ID	<ydYNz-460-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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"apt-get install" will report the size of the new files to be installed 
when it asks for confirmation.

I'm looking for something similar which will base its calculation *ONLY* 
on the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists/ {ignoring what is already on the 
current system}.

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Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-28 15:10 +0200
  Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-28 16:00 +0200
    Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-28 16:30 +0200
      Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-28 16:40 +0200
      Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-28 17:30 +0200
        Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-28 18:20 +0200
      Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-01 03:50 +0200
  Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-28 16:00 +0200
    Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-28 16:00 +0200
      Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-28 16:10 +0200

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