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

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Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-06-28 16:21:31)
> On 06/28/2019 08:58 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:50:02AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >> On Fri 28 Jun 2019 at 08:04:43 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>> "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}.
> >>
> >> I thought it already did; I posted this here six days ago:
> >>
> >>    Calculating upgrade... Done
> >>    The following packages will be upgraded:
> >>      …   …   …   …
> >>    9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >>    Need to get 52.5 MB/52.5 MB of archives.
> >>    After this operation, 74.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> >>                          ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑    ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
> >>    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> >>
> >> If that's not what you mean, ask your question again avoiding words
> >> like "similar" and "based on".
> > 
> > I read the OP's question as "the total installed size including
> > dependencies" -- assuming none of those dependencies has been
> > installed before (ex nihilo, so to speak).
> 
> Explicitly *YES*!
> It's nice to have someone actually read what I write ;)

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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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