OT: yum truncating (was: Re: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 27.08.2005 kl. 18.05 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> On 8/27/05, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre at solution-forge.net> 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