Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

["Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>]

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On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:32:45 felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > Weren't you talking about portage? In that case you should obviously file
> > it against portage.. But yeah, any app that has a --nocolor equivalent
> > that doesn't work deserves a bug report.. Even for apps that don't it's
> > reasonable to file it as an enhancement request.
>
> Oh for pete's sake, don't be so literal.  Esearch has screwed up.
> Emerge has screwed up.  Revdep-rebuild has screwed up.

Both portage (that includes emerge) and revdep-rebuild seems to honour 
NOCOLOR=true if put into /etc/make.conf.

It's not really clear to me whether by 'screwed up' you mean the defaults 
didn't satisfy you or that --nocolor didn't work. If the former I don't 
really care.

> Stop reading the leaves on the trees and paya ttention to the forest.  Your
> quibbly attitude is exactly the petulant behavior which makes me not want to
> waste my time filing bug reports on somebody's pet eye candy.

???

Well, given your attitude I don't really want to encourage you to file any bug 
reports no matter what happens on your systems.

If at some point you decide that you want to achieve something other than 
incoherent rants and assuming you aren't just whining over the defaults not 
suiting your precious needs then by all means go ahead and file constructive 
bugs reports against those apps. `equery belongs` will tell you what packages 
to file them against.

And just so it's clear. I do agree that ideally they should all respect a term 
setting that shows no color capabilities. But without someone sitting down 
and writing the code properly I don't see it happening.

-- 
Bo Andresen

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