Hi! On 2011-11-18 22:21, A. Costa wrote: > Several Windows package managers (Secunia, Glary Utils, etc.) can sort > installed programs by install date. The feature is surprisingly > useful, for example, when one forgets the name of a recently installed > package or program. > > Since 'dpkg' doesn't store the install date, Debian lacks a simple sort > by install date function. (There are kludges, like parsing logfiles, > but the logs only go back so far.) > > Possible remedy: > > Add an install date field to the 'cupt' installed package database. >
> Note: Why 'cupt' and not 'dpkg'? Ideally 'dpkg' ought to store the > installation date, but a review of the 'dpkg' bug list shows its > cautious maintainers can be slow to change things: That's true. However, that's not a good reason to break layering. Regarding the use-case, indeed it's not possible to 'sort by installation date', but logs should be enough to remember what program(s) was/were installed recently. Specifically, Cupt logs store all package changes (done by libcupt) for 2 years by default, and logs can be either read by human or a specific log parser. By some point of view, the logs is the database. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
