Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (66 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

> > do it when there is one single person requesting it? Did we ask 
> > anybody else? Do we know what the majority of our user base thinks 
> > about it?
>
> I would be highly confused if anything on my system starts to use KiB 
> and GiB... I know hardware vendors always did it... not out of lack of 
> knowledge, but the figures just sound better... IF this ever get's 
> enabled, please only with very sane and simple way to switch to 'normal' 
> display.

You are one of the results of the unsuing confusion.  [kK]B always was 
"wrong" for 1024 Bytes.  Now "they" decided to fix it for good by 
introducing new binary prefixes for sizes.  "Ki" for instance for 2^10, 
"Mi" for 2^20 and so on.

So, the only thing which would change would be the strings, not the 
multiplier (1024).


Ciao,
Michael.
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