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From: "János Holányi" <HOLANYIJ@westel900.hu>
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Subject: Unknown and Not Installed packages
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.6.9 (i386)
Severity: wishlist

I wish 'dpkg -l <wildcard-containing pattern>' didn't list packages with
'Unknown' Desired Status and 'Not Installed' Status.

An extra option (--verbose or --all maybe?) should allow it, though...
someone might find it useful.

Presently this kind of listing (dpkg -l '*' apparently lists all available
packages...!) is pretty uninformative and suggests a dirty package system
status:


Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  3c5x9utils     <none>         (no description available)
un  3dchess        <none>         (no description available)


Regards

csani@lme.linux.hu