Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:12:21AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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.
Agreed.
On the other hand, I can't believe it's more than a ten minute change
to fix it. And we're not short of C programmers round here...
*ducks and hides*
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