On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:23:21 +0100
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2017, 14:21:10 CET schrieb Michał Górny:
> > Hello, everyone.
> > 
> > It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has
> > accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is:
> > 
> >   Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger
> >   than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should
> >   be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs.
> > 
> > (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes)
> >   
> 
> This is hard (but not impossible I guess) for toolchain stuff, even though we 
> have already most patches in external tarballs, since we want to keep some 
> old 
> versions of packages available.
> 
> huettel@pinacolada ~/Gentoo/gentoo/sys-libs/glibc/files $ du -sh .
> 152K    .

Is this the right measure? Actual disk usage will vary depending on
block size. For me, this is only 94K. "du -bsh" gives the true byte
total as 79K.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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