Command choco list should list local packages when called with no parameters

[vexx32]

Disclaimer: I am a casual user who frequently forgets I have chocolatey installed.

As such a casual user, when I remember I have Chocolatey installed, I enjoy being able to update the packages I have installed without manually going and figuring out where they came from myself.

However, it seems strangely obtuse to figure out how to just list the packages I have installed. Most package managers I've dabbled in tend to assume that when I look for a list of packages, I generally want to look at already-installed packages first.

Chocolatey does not. If you call choco list with no other parameters, it assumes you want every single possible package that is available. I have never wanted this, not even once. Were I to want it, I would expect that a call such as choco list * would have this behaviour.

Instead, I have to muddle through the help screens until I stumble across --local-only. So it's about twice as many keystrokes just to get at a list of things I have installed. What is the motivation for this?

I genuinely am having difficulty understanding why it's preferable behaviour to bog down the package servers with a "give me all packages" request as the default behaviour of calling choco list. If there is a reason, please enlighten me. 😄

[ferventcoder]

Duplicate of #158

[ferventcoder]

FWIW I completely agree with your thoughts. This behavior was inherited by the way that NuGet works. Please see #158 for where this is going to be added as it is a breaking change.