Hey Shawn.

Thanks so much for the detailed explanation. I really appreciate it.

> So be relieved, because things are not as they seem here.  A lot of the 
> filtering logic is only applied to packages that are listed in an 
> installed incorporation.  That means that contrib and pending packages 
> won't be affected by a lot of the filtering logic since they're not 
> incorporated.

Ah. I missed that (obviously). I must've overgeneralized when my
(entire-incorporation-constrained alternative) packages largely went
AWOL. My bad.

> Please note I'm only arguing for the *default* behaviour of the GUI 
> being what it is now with the List API changes (LIST_INSTALLED_NEWEST).

Fair enough. And I suspected that would be the response from the get-go.
Hence my original suggestion that the GUI guys implement some of this
optionally in a future RFE.

I would've been content with the equivalent of something in the ballpark
of pkg list -n to get my wayward packages back in PM, but in light of
this statement:

>  From what I can tell, it should be reasonably easy for the GUI to offer 
> a view menu of some sort that directly mapped to all of the LIST types I 
> showed above with the default being "List Installed and Available".

I just asked for all of them. ;-) As a P5 enhancement if and when time
and workload should permit.

Thanks again. Take care.
--joanie

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