I'm not sure if this has been discussed extensively before on debian-devel, but a quick search of the mailing list archives didn't turn up anything, so here goes:
The output format of dpkg -l is terrible. Many package names exceed the measly 16 characters allotted. Many, many times when trying to remove packages that have long strings of dependencies, I have to grep /var/lib/dpkg/status, and remove things by hand, when what I really want to do is dpkg -l '*netscape*' | xargs dpkg --purge. -- Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.verbum.org/levanti PGP Fingerprint: A580 5AA1 0887 2032 7EFB 19F4 9776 6282 C207 843A
