On Wednesday 04 April 2007 06:17:39 felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)?
[SNIP]
> I am so tired of this crap.  Even editing /usr/bin/emerge to always
> set output.havecolor to 0 doesn't disable color.  I have to copy and
> paste into an editor just to read the error messages.

Easier to just pipe the output into less.

> It has always been so; most portage commands simply aassume I want all sorts
> of colorized messages on my screen.

And it never occurred to you to just file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org? How are 
devs supposed to fix your bug if you don't report it? (that's rhetorical).

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Bo Andresen