Hi! On Sun, 2018-05-13 at 21:29:13 -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > Package: dpkg
> Currently dpkg has logic to detect the terminal width and then to adjust > its output. If the terminal is too narrow this has the effect of > truncating useful information such as the package names and versions. > Truncating this information has the effect of rendering the output > useless. For instance: […] > I asked dpkg to tell me about all the '*sundials*' packages it knows > about. And it then lied to me about both the names and the versions of > these packages. To get the requested information out I have to prevent > dpkg from knowing my terminal settings: I think if dpkg had a say, it would reject the notion that it lied to you, it just provided partial information. ;) […] > Can we please strip out this logic? I don't think 'dpkg -l' should cut > out any information ever. Want a patch? So, I'm usually annoyed by this behavior to the point that I tend to use a pager to get the output. But this is a historical behavior and I'm not sure whether people would get annoyed by such change, people are sensitive like that to this kind of UI change. I think a compromise change might be to automatically run the output through a pager when on a terminal, then the trimming code can go. I will probably ask around to see what people say. Thanks, Guillem
