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From: John Blinka <john.blinka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:23:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote:
>
> You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man
> portage and man color.map for details.
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> c:>Press Enter to Exit
>

Thanks for the color.map pointer.  A web search turns up one person's solution:

http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-portage-color-map-light-background-ftopict332304.html

A /etc/portage/color.map file containing just this one line makes the
"invisible" yellow portage output legible on my white background:

yellow=brown

I appreciate the help.  Problem solved!

John