lør, 27.08.2005 kl. 18.05 skrev Jeff Spaleta: > 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 At least when you are sitting in a xterm, it would be nice :) Even if the real problem are "package names to long". Should i file a feature request for yum in bugzilla? Kyrre -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
