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Re: List packages Status column terminology
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Trent W. Buck |
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Re: List packages Status column terminology |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:32:15 +1100 |
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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.
- RE: List packages Status column terminology, (continued)
Re: List packages Status column terminology, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/18
Re: List packages Status column terminology, Trent W. Buck, 2014/01/23