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On Wednesday 04 April 2007 07:13:06 felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > I have to copy and 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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Well, as stated; that's a bug. Report it. |
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> > > It has always been so; most portage commands simply aassume I want all |
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> > > sorts 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 |
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> > are devs supposed to fix your bug if you don't report it? (that's |
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> > 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? |
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[SNIP] |
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Weren't you talking about portage? In that case you should obviously file it |
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against portage.. But yeah, any app that has a --nocolor equivalent that |
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doesn't work deserves a bug report.. Even for apps that don't it's reasonable |
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to file it as an enhancement request. |
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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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First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer colors |
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over no colors (no I cannot qualify with any numbers..). That does not, |
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however, mean that the pipe detection and --color switch etc. shouldn't be |
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honoured. It should (and it does here). Secondly, how did you come up with |
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the idea that a bug report would be dismissed if you never filed one? |
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[SNIP] |
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> But based on past performance, it will no doubt shift around to some other |
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> package in a few weeks, so I will wait and see. |
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'Past performance'? 'Some other package' (are you still speaking of the |
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package manager)? |
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Bo Andresen |
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