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

[Axel Beckert]

Control: retitle -1 aptitude: Document in the man-page how to reverse the order of the available sorting criterias
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo

Hi Manuel,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >>So it's solely a documentation issue. Raising severity from wishlist
> >>to minor then and retitling the bug report accordingly.
> >
> >It's not documented in the man page,

Yep.

> >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.

> >-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.

		Regards, Axel
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