Comment # 11 on bug 423007 from Michael Andres

I think c#10 explains it. 

In the past we had monolithic command help texts which were in fact fix
formated by the translators.

We slowly migrated them and menawhile all command help texts are dynamically
formated according to the terminal width (but at most 100 columns). So you can
red it even with 40 columns:

>   Command options:
> 
> -t, --type <TYPE>   Type of package
>                     (package, patch,
>                     pattern, product).
> -n, --name          Select packages by
>                     plain name, not by
>                     capability. Default:
>                     false
> -C, --capability    Select packages
>                     solely by
>                     capability. Default:
>                     false