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

[felix@crowfix.com]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:37:55PM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
> 
> Both portage (that includes emerge) and revdep-rebuild seems to honour 
> NOCOLOR=true if put into /etc/make.conf.

No they don't.  I have had that line since the day I first noticed it,
and I still get unreadable color output.

NOCOLOR=true
--nocolor
-color=n
TERM=vt100
|less

I still get colorized crap.

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

I have no intention of filing a bug full of rants.

> 
> 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.

If gentoo colorization ever settles down to a coherent stable
methodology, I will even provide a patch.  But I have too many things
to do to try to debug a moving target which is so completely broken.

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