On 23 February 2014 04:08, Kuro Maii <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all and/or developers of aptitude, > > I have a request to update the cli output of aptitude to be "human > readable". I request this because I have used fedora and find it a bit > to unstable for daily use but I really like how yum has formated its output. > as for a demo of the output here are pastebins for both > aptitude: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6977999/ > yum : http://paste.ubuntu.com/6977867/ > > If a yum-like output can be implemented I would be very happy even if it > would be with an extra commandline option. >
The current internal design of aptitude means any change this significant would be large and unmanageable, spread across multiple modules. > I would also like to know other peoples opinion to the matter as I find > the default output of aptitude to be very unreadable. > I have no trouble reading aptitude output, and the example you gave is rather trivial. If you want more details in the output try using --verbose. Otherwise, I think you are just used to yums output. Perhaps you can add an apt backend to yum. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
