Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.5-3 Severity: wishlist Currently [S], Aptitude::UI::Default-Sorting and --sort allow a bunch of sorting criterias, e.g. "installsize". "installsize" sorts the smallest packages first. Nevertheless there currently seems no way to sort packages so that the biggest packages come first.
While e.g. "aptitude search --sort installsize '~i' | tac" is a workaround on the commandline, there's no similar workaround for anything affecting the TUI interface. -- Package-specific info:
Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.5 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20151207 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20151024 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffeb38e6000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f0d8d769000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f0d8d539000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f0d8d30e000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f0d8d108000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f0d8ce0b000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f0d8cb34000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f0d8c91a000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f0d8c701000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f0d8c4fc000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f0d8c0f8000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f0d8bedb000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f0d8bb5f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f0d8b85a000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f0d8b644000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f0d8b29f000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f0d8b09c000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0d8ae98000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f0d8ac80000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f0d8aa65000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f0d8a855000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f0d8a631000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f0d8a41f000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f0d8a216000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f0d8a011000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055d7b1279000)
-- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.5-3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.2 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1+b1 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-8 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20151024-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.10.2-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-8 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-2 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.5-3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2 ii debtags 2.0.2 ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information