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

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.

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