[Aptitude-devel] Bug#814038: aptitude: Provide a way to reverse order with any of the available sorting criterias

[Axel Beckert]

Control: severity -1 minor
Control: retitle -1 aptitude: Document how to reverse the order of the available sorting criterias

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >Currently [S], Aptitude::UI::Default-Sorting and --sort allow a bunch of
> >sorting criterias, e.g. "installsize". "installsize" sorts the smallest
> >packages first. Nevertheless there currently
> >seems no way to sort packages so that the biggest packages come first.
> >
> >While e.g. "aptitude search --sort installsize '~i' | tac" is a
> >workaround on the commandline, there's no similar workaround for
> >anything affecting the TUI interface.
> 
> I haven't checked so I don't know if it works 100%, and I don't know if
> it's documented, but I think that prepending a ~ reverses the sort
> policy direction, so "~installsize" should sort with the
> largest-unpacked-size packages first.

Thanks! That's what I was looking for!

So it's solely a documentation issue. Raising severity from wishlist
to minor then and retitling the bug report accordingly.

		Regards, Axel
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