From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HYxIE-0007uw-HW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:40:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l344d8ZH016320; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:39:08 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l344XQbC009337 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:33:27 GMT Received: from [4.231.95.76] (dialup-4.231.95.76.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.95.76]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l344XOv0011816 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:33:25 -0500 Message-ID: <46132A93.4090603@exceedtech.net> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:33:23 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070317 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 53aadfda-0624-4b82-b936-304e56506682 X-Archives-Hash: 2925637b995b7f32ce5701498c1378fc felix@crowfix.com wrote: > Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? > > Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre > colors scattered all over my screen? > > What bozo thought all those colors were legible on every frikking > terminal and checking for --nocolor was unnecesary? > > 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. It has always > been so; most portage commands simply aassume I want all sorts of > colorized messages on my screen. Oooh, let's find a use for yellow, > and green, and blue, and red, well of course red, but let's make sure > we use EVERY FREAKING COLOR IN THE BOOK just because, well, BECAUSE WE > CAN. Let's IGNORE the TERM environmental variable while we're at it. > > I CAN'T EVEN DISABLE IT BY SETTING TERM TO vt100. > > And if ALL THESE CAPS distress you and you think I am shouting, well > goodness gracious, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT COLORIZATION RUN AMUCK. > > Retch. > > I thought I was the only one that had to copy and paste it to Kwrite to read it. Sorry to say I'm not alone here. :-( He seems, well, . . . pissed. :/ Dale :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list