From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22694 invoked by uid 1002); 29 May 2003 14:27:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13481 invoked from network); 29 May 2003 14:27:34 -0000 From: John Robinson To: Tavis Ormandy Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030529140020.GB15006@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <1053306873.1543.8.camel@wolf.codewordt.co.uk> <20030528090637.GB13935%chutz@gg3.net> <20030528140638.GA12271@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200305281113.59132.george@gentoo.org> <20030528190854.GA16794@cerberus.oppresses.us> <87vfvuvl3x.fsf@killr.ath.cx> <20030529032215.GA13180@time> <1054190425.20251.82.camel@isengard.aravir.net> <17750000.1054203447@nareau.whistlingfish.net> <1054215061.20253.100.camel@isengard.aravir.net> <20030529140020.GB15006@sdf.lonestar.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1054218439.20253.122.camel@isengard.aravir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 29 May 2003 10:27:19 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs X-Archives-Salt: 2d0db767-65a2-4efc-9cfb-a256e086b98f X-Archives-Hash: 0463f2907f31a7a8f15b69e0c0572f89 > you can detect a terminal on a file descriptor with test -t (help test > if you use bash) > > ls uses --color=auto, to show colour only if stdout is a tty, > --color=always to show colour no matter what. Cool. Good to know. In that case, the switch to auto-detection seems like a good one to me, but now I wonder why it hasn't already been implemented. I don't know why emerge was designed with its current philosophies, or which ones affect this part of its operation, so (with my changed opinion) I think I'm gonna have to check out and let somebody who does know speculate on why it would be a good or bad idea. =) Cheers, John Robinson -- Love justice; desire mercy. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list