Hi when installing a package with multiple dependencies apt gives an output: (example: apt install gnome) > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > accountsservice aisleriot apache2-bin apg baobab bluez bluez-obexd > bogofilter ogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common bolt brasero-common > caribou cheese cheese-common chrome-gnome-shell cracklib-runtime > dconf-cli dleyna-server eog evince evince-common evolution > evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common > evolution-plugin-bogofilter evolution-plugin-pstimport > evolution-plugins file-roller five-or-more > .............. output truncated It is very inconvenient to inspect the list of installed packages in such output. Is it possible to make apt output this in a column? For example: > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > accountsservice (version, size, ...) > aisleriot > apache2-bin > apg > baobab > bluez > bluez-obexd > .... This is something that FreeBSD pkg does by default and I find it to be very convenient. I have not found any options in apt.conf Looking at the source [1] it seems that space separator is hard-coded.. [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/aptitude/0.8.12-3/src/cmdline/ cmdline_prompt.cc/?hl=227#L227 -- Ihor Antonov
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