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Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section



On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I had thought of that one, and I agree with your evaluation of its
> significance.  You see, dpkg -l gives 14 columns of package name in an
> 80-column terminal, so you would see:

dpkg -l is (IMHO) very frustrating. Just when you want to find out
what kernels you have installed and no longer need:

[8:11am] hamish@silly:~> dpkg -l | grep kernel
ii  ipx            2.2.0.17-1     Utilities to configure the kernel ipx interf
ii  kernel-image-2 silly.2        Linux kernel binary image.
ii  kernel-image-2 silly.1        Linux kernel binary image.
ii  kernel-package 7.04.potato.1  Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.

... the useful part of the package name is cut off.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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