Bug#38060: dpkg: Ignores actual screen width in listings
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.1
Hi,
This has been annoying me for some time, so I post it now.
Why does dpkg assume that my terminal is no wider than 80 characters? In
some cases the output of dpkg -l doesn't even allow you to distinguish
between certain packages because their names only differ in the last few
characters (e.g. enlightenment-foo-blah-whatever). Likewise, cutting off the
description line at 80 chars isn't very elegant.
There could at least be a command line option to tell dpkg how wide the
output should be. After all, you might not want to display it but rather
parse it or something, where width doesn't matter but information content
does.
Regards,
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-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux utopia 2.2.9 #53 Wed May 19 21:45:06 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libncurses4 4.2-3.2 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.61-1 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
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