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

[Bryan Whitehead <driver@megahappy.net>]

Go back to using Solaris ya old fart!

;)

felix@crowfix.com wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:36:49AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
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>>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.
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>Oh for pete's sake, don't be so literal.  Esearch has screwed up.
>Emerge has screwed up.  Revdep-rebuild has screwed up.  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.
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>>First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer colors 
>>over no colors (no I cannot qualify with any numbers..). That does not, 
>>however, mean that the pipe detection and --color switch etc. shouldn't be 
>>honoured. It should (and it does here). Secondly, how did you come up with 
>>the idea that a bug report would be dismissed if you never filed one?
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>The UNIX standard for ages has been simple text output.  Why must
>gentoo add trendy colors which change every time some eye candy
>fanatic gets a bug up his butt to change colors when he gets bored
>with the old fashioned colors?  the default ought to be colors OFF and
>you have to ask to get them.
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>I choose fonts small enough to get maximum density with minimum eye
>strain.  The only way I could read these colors would be to increase
>the font size and decrease the density.  If gentoo developers think
>that a wise trade off when almost no other utility uses colors so much
>and so horribly, then gentoo is broken by design and no amount of bug
>reportage will change a damned thing.  Harmony is a nice design
>feature.  You ought to try it sometime.
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>As long as I am ranting, I may as well throw in a few rants on the
>amateur kids who run gentoo; those who think the world should be
>thankful for their color choices are the same idiots who linked ls
>against a /usr/lib library and made my system ubootable, who removed
>libraries which LVM linked against during boot and made my system
>unbootable.  Gentoo has good points, starting with portage, but it
>also has innumerable insufferable knowitalls who make me gnash my
>teeth at their inconsiderate unthinking fad-of-the-week behavior.
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