Dear Maintainer, apt build-dep just asked me this in a sid chroot: -- >8 -- Suggested packages: autoconf-archive cargo-doc gettext-doc libssl-doc | fortran95-compiler apparmor libmail-box-perl libjs-mathjax gnu-standards python3 libasprintf-dev libtool-doc gcj-jdk less ri ruby-kramdown-parser-gfm autoconf-doc dh-make libgettextpo-dev gfortran m4-doc www-browser ruby-dev bundler Recommended packages: curl | lynx imagemagick netpbm libarchive-cpio-perl libldap-common publicsuffix libltdl-dev zip fonts-lato | wget ghostscript libpaper1 psutils javascript-common libgpm2 libsasl2-modules libmail-sendmail-perl ruby-rouge rust-llvm Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 88, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 Download size: 153 MB Space needed: 625 MB / 50.7 GB available -- >8 -- what does it mean? I'm assuming the suggestion is "libssl-doc | fortran95-compiler" (odd but maybe). But what's the recommendations? "curl | lynx", "fonts-lato | wget"? I think something like "curl | lynx | wget" makes the most sense, but in that case why is "fonts-lato" textually before "| wget"? If the alternatives are vertical too, then how does ghostscript factor into them? The build-deps are Build-Depends: debhelper, debhelper-compat (= 12), bash-completion, ronn (>= 0.9.0), locales, cargo, pkg-config, libssl-dev, Best, наб
Hi, so that might be a regression in that sense already. The reading order for the "new" column view is according to its name: 111 4 77 22 55 888 3 666 9 while the "old" wall-of-text has: 111 22 3 4 55 666 77 888 9 So: gfortan | fortran95-compiler curl | wget | lynx I think the alternatives group might be better of written together and then the individual columns separated with ~4 spaces like in the future-suggested "oldname => newname" case. The individual columns could get quiet big given package names can be long, but that is a problem for the column display anyhow. Anyway, I will leave it up to Julian what to do about this as this new stuff is his baby. Best regards David Kalnischkies
Hi! hm. this is atrocious to me. is there a layout option that makes the text go from left to right instead of top to bottom? i expect to be reading polish or english (and, indeed, the UI and package names are english), so the mongolian layout is, well, baffling you cannot in good conscience try to tell me that anyone in their right mind will EVER read it like this lol At the very least the groups should form blocks that only break if they are taller than the row, rather than anywhere. The fortran thing is indefensible imo. If you insist on the mongolian order, then having them form an actual chain, like |curl |wget |lynx feels much better than the spaced-out everything-is-two-cells-apart-so-nothing-is-related soup you get now. Again, I would like to read the packages in the text order I'm used to, not in mongolian. This will also instantly clear up any problems that fall out of an ambiguous spacing because the fallback of "just read it" will be correct. Thanks, this was enlightening