[Aptitude-devel] Bug#814037: aptitude: Aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit is ignored if Aptitude::UI::Flat-View-As-First-View is set to true

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Axel,

2016-02-14 15:16 Axel Beckert:
>Hi,
>
>Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>> >if I call either 'aptitude -o "Aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit=~i" -o
>> >"Aptitude::UI::Flat-View-As-First-View=true"' or 'aptitude -o
>> >"Aptitude::UI::Flat-View-As-First-View=true" -o
>> >"Aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit=~i"' (i.e. order is not relevant), the
>> >value of Aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit is ignored and set to "!~v" which
>> >is the default for flat views.
>> >
>> >IMHO that default should be overridable on the command line.

It was just ignoring ::Pkg-Display-Limit, fixed now.


>> Just a note (for explanation, and future fixes) to say that maybe this
>> is related or side effect of the more general problem of -o in the
>> command line not always working -- but not merging since I am not sure.
>
>Indeed. I thought of that bug report, too, when writing this one, but
>I wasn't sure if it's related either.

Not related to the other problem, in the end.


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