On 2020-05-16 at 20:39, Ihor Antonov wrote: > 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? Not as far as I know. I generally deal with it by getting the output into a file (either by "highlight, middle-click paste into an edit buffer, save to a file", or by using --dry-run and redirecting the output and editing the result down), then passing it through a suitable sed filter to translate the spaces into newlines. That's a bit unwieldy, but I don't tend to need to do it very often. > 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 FWIW, I would not want to have this happen most of the time, and I would not find it particularly convenient - especially not when upgrading hundreds of packages at once, which is something I do at least multiple times a year and sometimes multiple times a month. > 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 Sounds like a case for a wishlist bug, requesting a new configuration option, then. No guarantee that one will be added, but it's certainly less likely that anyone will bother to code this if no one has asked for it than if someone has. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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