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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: help :}
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 09:38:25 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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