Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.1 Hi,
This has been annoying me for some time, so I post it now. Why does dpkg assume that my terminal is no wider than 80 characters? In some cases the output of dpkg -l doesn't even allow you to distinguish between certain packages because their names only differ in the last few characters (e.g. enlightenment-foo-blah-whatever). Likewise, cutting off the description line at 80 chars isn't very elegant. There could at least be a command line option to tell dpkg how wide the output should be. After all, you might not want to display it but rather parse it or something, where width doesn't matter but information content does. Regards, -- Andrew Korn (Korn Andras) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~korn Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key. Homepage is obsolete. QOTD: Not tonight, dear. I have a modem. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux utopia 2.2.9 #53 Wed May 19 21:45:06 CEST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libncurses4 4.2-3.2 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.61-1 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
