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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:29:45AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 06:17:39 felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? |
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> [SNIP] |
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> > I am so tired of this crap. Even editing /usr/bin/emerge to always |
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> > set output.havecolor to 0 doesn't disable color. I have to copy and |
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> > paste into an editor just to read the error messages. |
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> Easier to just pipe the output into less. |
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Doesn't always work. Whatever generates the color ignores TERM and |
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--nocolor and color=n, and doesn't always pay attention to where the |
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output is going either. |
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> > It has always been so; most portage commands simply aassume I want all sorts |
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> > of colorized messages on my screen. |
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> And it never occurred to you to just file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org? How are |
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> devs supposed to fix your bug if you don't report it? (that's rhetorical). |
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Certainly has, but the colorization decision has moved around enough |
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that I figure it was a moving target. What would I file it against, |
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every python utility that screws it up? I figured it was easier to |
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just edit color out of the damned programs after each update. |
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Sometimes I don't need to, sometimes I do. |
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Besides, the colorization is so blatantly awful as to obviously be |
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someone's pet little eye candy contribution; any bug report is very |
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likely to be dismissed as just some geriatric fossile who fondly |
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remembers teletypes. |
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This current outburst was a result of my dismay at finding the |
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colorization institutionalized in the output package, which a quick |
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grep didn't find, and editing havecolor = 0 all over didn't fix it |
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either. Maybe, if it is now centralized, a bug report might actually |
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do some good. But based on past performance, it will no doubt shift |
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around to some other package in a few weeks, so I will wait and see. |
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