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

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:36:49AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:

> Weren't you talking about portage? In that case you should obviously file it
> against portage.. But yeah, any app that has a --nocolor equivalent that
> doesn't work deserves a bug report.. Even for apps that don't it's reasonable
> to file it as an enhancement request.

Oh for pete's sake, don't be so literal.  Esearch has screwed up.
Emerge has screwed up.  Revdep-rebuild has screwed up.  Stop reading
the leaves on the trees and paya ttention to the forest.  Your quibbly
attitude is exactly the petulant behavior which makes me not want to
waste my time filing bug reports on somebody's pet eye candy.

> First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer colors
> over no colors (no I cannot qualify with any numbers..). That does not,
> however, mean that the pipe detection and --color switch etc. shouldn't be
> honoured. It should (and it does here). Secondly, how did you come up with
> the idea that a bug report would be dismissed if you never filed one?

The UNIX standard for ages has been simple text output.  Why must
gentoo add trendy colors which change every time some eye candy
fanatic gets a bug up his butt to change colors when he gets bored
with the old fashioned colors?  the default ought to be colors OFF and
you have to ask to get them.

I choose fonts small enough to get maximum density with minimum eye
strain.  The only way I could read these colors would be to increase
the font size and decrease the density.  If gentoo developers think
that a wise trade off when almost no other utility uses colors so much
and so horribly, then gentoo is broken by design and no amount of bug
reportage will change a damned thing.  Harmony is a nice design
feature.  You ought to try it sometime.

As long as I am ranting, I may as well throw in a few rants on the
amateur kids who run gentoo; those who think the world should be
thankful for their color choices are the same idiots who linked ls
against a /usr/lib library and made my system ubootable, who removed
libraries which LVM linked against during boot and made my system
unbootable.  Gentoo has good points, starting with portage, but it
also has innumerable insufferable knowitalls who make me gnash my
teeth at their inconsiderate unthinking fad-of-the-week behavior.

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