Install and download subcommand conclusion needs improving #8754
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state: needs discussion
This needs some more discussion
type: enhancement
Improvements to functionality
UX
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I wonder if this is a good chance to change the output format as well. The current space-delimited format is very difficult to parse, both visually or by a program.
The same actually applies to the “successfully installed” message for
pip install
as well. Would a PR changing it to, say, one package on a line, be welcomed?Originally posted by @uranusjr in #8709 (comment)
Currently this is how they look like (I'm using a screenshot to show the hard line breaks):
The following is the output of aptitude, which put all (also space-delimited) packages name to a separate block and soft wrap them:
One other alternatives I can think of are comma-delimited and newline-delimited lists. I'm also wondering if we want to change the format used to report the version so that uninstallation is copy-pastable, e.g.
appdirs==1.4.4
instead ofappdirs-1.4.4
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