>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> dman wrote:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
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Joey> I wonder if this minor change would make the ascii art vaguely more
Joey> understandable:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
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I like this one
Joey> Here is another version:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
||Prob?=Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Prob: uppercase=bad)
||| Name Version Description
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Joey> I prefer this last one. Comments?
Hmm. Staggering the sexplanatory lines makes it less clutered,
somehow, and easier for my tired old eyes to parse it.
Joey> Oh well, dpkg 1.10 will have dpkg-query that can be used to generate
Joey> much better formed reports.
I do like the compactness of this report format -- hopefully
that shan't be lost in the transition (for some reason verbosity is
deemed prettier by some)
manoj
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