On 17/06/16 01:37, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 13.06.2016 22:07, Alastair Hughes wrote: >>> I really don't want to provide a binary just to do this. >> >> I'm cross compiling; in that case, the host system has a different du >> than the target system > > How about implementing the functionality in something like awk or perl? > Those should be sufficiently fast and widely available. makepkg already > uses awk so maybe that would be a good fit. >
Because history! https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-March/015293.html