-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2022-04-12 at 19:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
How about switching default output fields for zypper lr, for the benefit of both help responders, and seekers?
Who are the most common users, anyone outside the various support forums?
In support forums, it's pretty common that repos are an issue, and when they are, the URIs in those repos are the most vital information. So, why aren't URIs included in the default output? OPs often know they're needed without knowing why, so will include them, but without the -r switch, whereupon someone must ask for them again, with the switch, prolonging the useful response and solution times. OTOH, repo names and nicknames in conjunction with URIs add nothing in this use context.
A good help responder knows he/she has to ask for "zypper lr --details" the first time, so no time wasted ;-p ...
Alternatively, a new switch, appropriate specifically to common help situations, with reduced likelihood of being wrapped, possibly by truncating name and/or alias at some maximum field width, maybe 18, 20 or 24.
No, the full name and alias are needed. Maybe format the text in a manner that it doesn't wrap (less than 70 chars), being multiline for each entry in some clever way that I do not know how to do ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYlYOLhwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV+b8AnjhOoB3Km8RyuHpc/ne1 IxcBEfXyAJ9ygI/UKn7GuKtlIcNm1op8VeoyoA== =YdR5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----