Re: List packages Status column terminology

[Trent W. Buck]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> For comparison, aptitude uses these terms:
> [...]
>> They appear horizontally as grouping elements in a tree view,
>> so they use up one line each instead of umpteen columns.
>
> That's a good presentation, since it saves a column (in exchange for
> a few extra lines).  The downsides:
> - incompatible with "sort by name", where we want to see the various
>   versions (built-in, obsolete, and new ones) together.

aptitude deals with that by letting you turn off the grouping (you still
see the code-letters status column).  Although, normally I would be
doing sorting with "aptitude search | sort | ..." which doesn't group by
default.

Should probably look at other distro package managers, too; ICBF.