yum list display some package in 2 rows

[g]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On 01/31/2009 08:03 AM, g wrote:
>> Ambrogio wrote:
>>
>>> There is an option to have a more simple list of packages, less readable
>>> by umans, but more readable by computer?
>> consider wider viewing window?
> 
> He said it was a script.

this is true. he did not say where he is running script. virtual vs xterm.

> The viewing window should be irrelevant.

depends on where script is run.

> However it looks like yum is formatting its output to the width of the 
> tty even when stdout is not a terminal.

formatting to width of tty? really. i would say it is terminal end of line
wrap.

> That would be a bug.

not a bug. op is at wrong screen size for output length.


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