Comment 37 for bug 1988819

In the proposed fix, will there be some sort of flag and/or configuration for apt and apt-get to let me NOT see this list of "deferred due to phasing" packages? I agree it's important to list them for users who want to see it, but it's also important to not bloat the output with a bunch of extra info most users should not (or won't want to) worry about. Often this list of packages is quite long and distracting.

There should be something like APT::Get::Show-Deferred = --show-deferred and --no-show-deferred.

IMHO, not listing should be the default. I think most users would not need such verbosity, and by default you could simply show a message like "Some updates are deferred for you due to phasing" if this list would have been non-empty.
When users see this message, they can always use --show-deferred if they need the list; this would change the message to "The following updates are deferred for you due to phasing:" (list of packages).
If they use --no-show-deferred, then not even this message would appear.