Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:33:55 -0600
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: [alpine-devel] wishlist for APK in 2.2
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Hi,

I'm mainly making some notes of some things that are inconsistent at
present.  These are:

1. apk info -W shows an english message:

petrie:/$ apk info -W /bin/busybox
/bin/busybox is owned by busybox-1.17.4-r1

Really, this should probably work more like this:

petrie:/$ apk info -W /bin/busybox
/bin/busybox: busybox-1.17.4-r1

That behaviour is consistent with the rest of APK's output.

2. apk search doesn't show descriptions unless you use -v:

petrie:~$ apk search *busybox*
busybox-1.17.4-r1
busybox-static-1.17.4-r1
busybox-initscripts-2.0-r14

If you're a user, this is unintuitive.  The apk search -v output is
more helpful, when you consider that someone is probably going to use
apk search to find what packages to install most of the time.

petrie:~$ apk search -v *busybox*
busybox-1.17.4-r1 - Size optimized toolbox of many common UNIX utilities
busybox-static-1.17.4-r1 - Size optimized toolbox of many common UNIX
utilities
busybox-initscripts-2.0-r14 - Init scripts for busybox daemons

This shows what the package *does* which is useful.

- nenolod


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