Jari Aalto writes ("Bug#466971: dpkg [dpkg] lists output of option -L in
alphabetical order"):
> The -L listing is very ofter used to check where "are" the files in
> the package. For human consumption, the alphabetical order is very
> important. Any other order is distracting.
Yes, I agree.
> Fri 2008-02-22 Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> INBOX
> > I think the right answer is for dpkg -L to sort its output (perhaps
> > with an option to suppress this if desired).
>
> The other way round. Please make the sorted listing the default, and
> add separate option to list the RAW order[*]
I think you must have misunderstood me. That's exactly what I meant.
(To `suppress' something is to make it not happen, so if I say
`perhaps with an option to suppress [sorting]' I mean that there will
be an option to get unsorted output and implicitly the sorted output
is the default.)
Ian.
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