Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: > On 10/19/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Looking at the histogram, 97.9% sonames are 31 characters and less, so >> we can fit 98.3% of them into pkgnames with up to 30 characters. The >> current cutoff point is at 84.6%, which I think is too low, leaving >> 15.4% sonames out. We could use curtations, but I'd prefer if we >> didn't. If we nevertheless did, I'd like us to have an algorithmic >> way of shortening package names. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > Now show details of how wide output would have to be, for pkg-get -c > or equivalent in pkgutil, if there were no limits. > > Currently, the output fits.. just barely... into a standard 80-char screen. > > If you take away all limits, the output would probably require > 150-char wide screen.
Look how 'dpkg --list' works on debian and adapt. In the meantime, use a wide terminal... Arbitrary limits are lame when the only reason is lame. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
