On 8/27/05, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What about detecting terminal size (width) and adjusting output > according to that (like less, top, etc. does)? while a fancy technical feature... thats going to help a few people. it doesn't really address the underlying issue. There are many many... many 80 column terminals in use. If package names continue to expand to 30 or 40 characters long.. this is a problem for anyone who is using one of those "standard" 80 column terminals. I think its perfectly fair for packagers to be aware of common hardware limitations like this and to try to keep the packagename strings down below a certain length as much as possible. There is a physical constraint here.. 80 columns is very much a defacto standard..even email clients understand that and attempt to respect that 79/80 column line limit. If packagenames inside this project need a 120 column terminal to uniquely identify and use.. thats a package naming policy problem. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
