On Jul 09, 2005 at 19:36, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: > Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok it seems that I am the only one interrested in this > > package. I will close the bug. > > Thanks for your help! > > Regards Nico > > Please don't. Rather do what people suggested: > > 1.) adapt the script to use the dpkg.log > > The dpkg log is overly detailed and probably confusing to normal > users. Your output seems to be much pretier. Read in the logfile and > extract the relevant information. Can't be much harder than parsing > the status file. > > This has also the advantage that usage of dpkg directly will show up > in your output. > > 2.) contact the apt or dpkg maintainers > > Talk to them about inclusion of apt-history (or dpkg-history in dpkg) > in their package. People are against creating yet another package when > the functionality clearly belongs inside an existing one. > I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would probably know grep. The people he was targetting are more likely to use one of the package selection tools.
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