[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-04-19, Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+gentoo@××××××.de> wrote:

> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are
> simple unreadable (like light green).

Yep, it's awful.  People have been complaining about it for years and
years.

> I searched how to adapt them to my background but did not success.

The short answer is: you can't.  The devs use black backgrounds and
you're supposed to also.

> I already know about color.map but this just allows to tune some
> colors and not all (at least the ones that are documented in the man
> page).
>
> So, is there any way (without using --nocolor) to use color set that is
> more readable?

Nope.

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