Filesize in Portfiles (was Re: [76684] trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm/Portfile)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 08/03/2011, at 18:59, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Anyway, we don't want filesizes and we don't want sha256 checksums.
> It's implemented already, but not worth the effort fighting about...

Isn't size useful so you can differentiate between a truncated download and a broken file?

ISTR that's what FreeBSD uses SIZE for.

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