[Aptitude-devel] Bug#676075: aptitude: Option to change order of packages in listing

[Josef Kufner]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.7-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,
when I see, that upgrade will take a lot of extra disk space, I want to see
which packages grow most. I would be nice to have an option to temporarily sort
packages by their disk usage change, so package which takes the most new disk
space would be first and package which releases most of the space would be
last.

This option should be easily accessible and only for current view.

Thanks,
Josef Kufner



-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.7 compiled at May  5 2012 03:07:17
Compiler: g++ 4.6.3
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb77d0000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0xb726c000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb723a000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7219000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7214000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7113000)
        libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0xb70c3000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6eda000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6ec0000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6e10000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0
(0xb6df9000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6de0000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6cf4000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb6ccd000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6cb0000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb6b67000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0xb6b63000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xb6b5f000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6b4e000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6b48000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xb6b3f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77d1000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.5.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3
ii  libc6                     2.13-32
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.2
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.6.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.0-11
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-7
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.12.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.0-11
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-7
ii  libxapian22               1.2.10-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  1.9.1
pn  tasksel  <none>