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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:52:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: Using APK to get the size of package before install?
To: Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek@gmail.com>
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From: "Dr. Lonnie Cumberland, PhD" <lonnie@outstep.com>
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Thanks so very much for the information on this, Jeff.

You know, I am actually finding Alpine Linux to be a real remarkable OS 
the more that I research and use it. I especially like the minimized 
distro approach which seems to fit perfectly with my current project.

Best,
Lonnie

On 2/20/2024 4:47 PM, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM Dr. Lonnie Cumberland, PhD
> <lonnie@outstep.com> wrote:
>> I am wondering about the size of Xorg when installed on Alpine and would like to know if it is possible to get the size, including dependencies, without installing it?
> If you use the -i option with "apk add" it will give you the download
> size and disk space required and ask if you want to proceed. Then you
> can just press "N" or Ctrl+C. If you wanted to automate that, you
> might try something like:
> echo n | apk add -i xorg-server
> (or whatever the package name is)
>
>   -- Jeff