On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:17:10 -0400
kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
(...)
> it will list the most popular package first. However, I left the
> default as is. I prefer having the most popular package at the bottom
> as it minimizes "the eyeball movement". Consider, for example, a
> command that produces multiple pages of output such as
>
> % apt-cache search "^vim-" --names-only | popsort.py
>
> To look at a few of the famous packages in this, one has to either
> scroll up or pipe the output to head. With the current sorting method,
> you can keep eyes closer to the command line and still get all the
> important information.
Ok, I see.. good point! I admit I did not think of this. Thanks for
explaining.
Best regards
Michael
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