Display Installed Package Size

The size of an installed package can be retrieved by equery size STRING. etcat and qpkg are superceded by equery as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.

For systems <portage-2.0.50 and <=gentoolkit-0.2 use: etcat size STRING

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