Comment 4 for bug 276457

TJ,

All good points, I just don't get how package-size might affect your decision for keeping or deleting a PPA package.

On the other hand, this the relevance of the source changelog and package-diff is very clear, and for that you need to inspect the details for each publication anyway.

That said, I see other informations that we could provide off-hand (w/o requiring you to expand the package row) that are way more important than the package size itself, for instance, installabilty against ubuntu (can this package be installed in ordinary ubuntu systems, release + security + updates)

This factor clearly affects quotas, those packages are useless in the repository and can be deleted straight away (unless you have special clients).

I don't have any problem in summing up the size of the files in a package within the expandable area as "Repository size: 300 MiB" but listing that in the package rows isn't in the interest of most users accessing the PPA page.

The package deletion interface has problems related to its limited batch and search capabilities and the fact that selections can not yet be preserved if we use batching, but that's not necessarily related with package-sizes being available or not, IMO.

The central point is this bug is if you have a dozen of packages and your PPA is over-quota, if they are still relevant in your context you need more space, doesn't matter how big each of them are.