From: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List packages Status column terminology
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:38:59 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sisemfos.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv8uuen1cj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> "available" is not a great choice, tho. The suggested "not installed"
> might be a bit better, but it's longer and I'd rather try and shorten
> this column.
>
> Any other idea?
For comparison, aptitude uses these terms:
Upgradable Packages (71)
A newer version of these packages is available.
New Packages (82)
These packages have been added to Debian since the last time you
cleared the list of "new" packages (choose "Forget new packages"
from the Actions menu to empty this list).
Installed Packages (746)
These packages are currently installed on your computer.
Not Installed Packages (41034)
These packages are not installed on your computer.
Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (6)
These packages are currently installed on your computer, but they
are not available from any apt source. They may be obsolete and
removed from the archive, or you may have built a private version of
them yourself.
Virtual Packages (5748)
These packages do not exist; they are names other packages use to
require or provide some functionality.
They appear horizontally as grouping elements in a tree view,
so they use up one line each instead of umpteen columns.
Each package also has one to four single-letter codes in a generic
"status" column, "i" for installed, "A" for automatically installed by
something else, "p" for not installed, "v" for virtual, etc. They
mostly correspond to the dpkg codes,
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Vers Description
xyz hello 1.0 The classic greeting, and a good example
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-17 4:56 List packages Status column terminology Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-17 8:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-01-17 10:19 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-17 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 14:35 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-17 15:12 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-17 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-17 16:15 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-17 17:39 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-17 17:54 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-17 21:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-17 22:55 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-18 2:44 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-19 1:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-18 12:33 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-18 12:55 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2014-01-23 23:38 ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
2014-01-24 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 1:32 ` Trent W. Buck
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