snap list/find output

Seth Arnold seth.arnold at canonical.com
Wed May 25 22:29:19 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:59:26AM -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Looking at my 16.04 installation for more relevant data, the max length for
> versions is 52, but the average is 12 and the median is 7. The output of
> unfiltered dpkg -l starts the summary at column 129, despite displaying
> only the name, version, arch, and summary.
> 
> I don't think we can win if the goal is having meaningful output for
> everything under 80 columns.

Is there anything we can do to encourage version numbers to be tolerably
short? It's a new world after all and we can suggest best practices.

Thanks
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