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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi Axel,

2016-03-07 23:13 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>2016-03-07 22:40 GMT+00:00 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:
>>
>>> >but then again in the --sort
>>> >section doesn't contain the policy names and it refers to the on-line
>>> >guide (which in my opinion is good, to not repeat information which can
>>> >easily go out of sync).
>>
>> While I see the advantage, I actually still prefer if they would be
>> listed in the man page, too.
>
>I'd prefer to not have it, but maybe it's the lazy person in me that
>doesn't want to have new bugs in the future receiving bugs with "oh,
>the list of sort-criteria is incomplete/outdated!".
>
>But then I acknowledge that it's more practical for everyday or
>occasional use to have it in the man page and not to have to go to the
>guide, specially when the short names are not straightforward or easy
>to remember... so it's fine by me.
>
>
>>> >-O <order>, --sort <order>
>>> >   Specify the order in which output from the search and versions
>>> >   commands should be displayed. For instance, passing “installsize”
>>> >   for <order> will list packages in order according to their size
>>> >   when installed (see the section “Customizing how packages are
>>> >   sorted” in the aptitude reference manual for more information).
>>> >
>>> >   The default sort order is name,version.
>>
>> I think adding the information about negation here, probably terser
>> than in the User's Manual, would be good thing while not really
>> duplicating data (like the list of available sorting criteria, which
>> probably changes more often than the negation character).
>>
>> I can take care of that.
>
>Nice!
>
>Please do, and add the sort criteria as well.

Any chance of addressing this soon?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>