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Kardell

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From: London a new Babylon

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 276

Pacman and Targets

Just a suggestion for your consideration.
I like pacman and the way it evolves. Is it possible to change the way how the targets are displayed during system update?
I know that displating all the packages in a long column is not very transparent, however listing them in line is not good either.
Is it possible to list them in 2 or 3 columns in alphabetical order?
If there is more than 30 updates it is really hard to scan through this text and determin if updates are critical or not.
Cheers

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jjacky

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 347

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Re: Pacman and Targets

Might not exactly be what you're looking for, but if you enable option VerbosePkgLists in your pacman.conf all packages will be listed with their names, versions and sizes, formatted as a table.

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