Ivandi: that could be just a matter of habit[1] but Pat doesn't use awk much in the installer. At time of writing I see an invocation of awk only in /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus that he borrowed.

Jeremy: that would need to ship numfmt in the installer.

Philip: that would need to ship bc in the installer.

No big hurdles though: awk from busybox[2] is already shipped, numfmt and bc are not that big and do not need additional dependencies.

[1]Or maybe, when he wrote most of the scripts in the installer awk was not shipped in busybox and he thought that a standalone awk plus dependencies was too heavy to be shipped, as machines had less RAM then.
[2]I didn't check if this version has the needed features though.

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Well, bash and expr don't do floating point math. And awk has been around for ages.

Anyway. Hope we'll see this fixed someday without shipping octave with the installer



Cheers

For a skilled enough person, floating point math is even doable with sed.

That being said, if the installer tells me that I have 897 MB available in a partition, I don't care if it's really 896 or 898.

Problem solved

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