OT: yum truncating (was: Re: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 27.08.2005 kl. 15.57 skrev seth vidal:
> On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:49 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 27.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb seth vidal:
> > > > Both yum (in its overview before the Transaction Summary and in some
> > > > other places) and rpm (when used with "-ivh" ) have problems with names
> > > > longer then ~23 characters (in yum the columns don't match in the
> > > > overview; during the download the name is striped after ~18 chars; in
> > > > the install-overview it is striped after around 30 chars. In rpm the
> > > > name is striped after ~23). 
> > > 
> > > just so you know - it's not a problem. it's not an oversight. We're
> > > intentionally truncating the output of the package name. Mostly to stay
> > > within an 80 character limit.
> > 
> > just so you know -- that was sure (at least to me -- yes, I should have
> > mentioned that here) :)
> > 
> > Sorry if that sounded like criticism on yum. I like it very much.
> 
> I wasn't worried about criticism on yum - I get plenty of that - I just
> didn't want to see a bug opened by some well-intentioned person based on
> it. :)
> 
> -sv
> 

What about detecting terminal size (width) and adjusting output
according to that (like less, top, etc. does)?