Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-du

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 00:04:34 +0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> > I)
> > This library defines a minor mode `dired-du-mode' to display
> > the recursive size of directories in Dired buffers.  This mode
> > uses the external `du' program when available.  Otherwise, it
> > performs a rough estimation with Lisp.
> 
> Would it be useful to extract the Lisp replacement of du as a separate
> library, or does that raise too many questions about cache management?

Why not use get-free-disk-space, which would make the library much
more portable?