Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I was wondering if it would be possible to have some \n's added to urpmi so > that when I run urpmi --auto-select and there are several packages to install > they aren't all clumped together on one line. As it is I find it very hard to > skim through the list of packages that it's going to want to upgrade (which > makes a difference if I'm running X and a slew of programs...). I understant > that it could easily take up several screens full of file names with the > newlines in there, but that's what ctrl+pgup is for, right?
one reason is to allow cut & paste of the list of packages. But I don't think this is a good reason. another reason is that to nicely wrap the list you need to know the terminal size which is not that easy to do. now the real reason is that it takes development time :) give a patch! (fpons is on holidays for some time, so don't expect any prompt response from him)
