Suppose I don't upgrade my system for a while. Once I finally run pacman -Syu, I'll obviously get lots of packages. In cases like this, the output is completely unacceptable - all packages are written in one line without any kind of alignment, only simple wrapping.So, can I get pacman to show the packages in columns like ls -C, or at least vertically like ls -1?So far I've been using pacman -Syu --print-format '%n %v', but this is suboptimal (especially that passing --print-format forces pacman to run in dry-run mode, so I actually need to run pacman -Syu again after examining the packages). Writing a wrapper script, or switching to another frontend, feels like overkill.
Format packages vertically in pacman
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