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

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