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Go back to using Solaris ya old fart! |
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felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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>On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:36:49AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: |
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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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>Oh for pete's sake, don't be so literal. Esearch has screwed up. |
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>Emerge has screwed up. Revdep-rebuild has screwed up. Stop reading |
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>the leaves on the trees and paya ttention to the forest. Your quibbly |
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>attitude is exactly the petulant behavior which makes me not want to |
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>waste my time filing bug reports on somebody's pet eye candy. |
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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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>The UNIX standard for ages has been simple text output. Why must |
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>gentoo add trendy colors which change every time some eye candy |
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>fanatic gets a bug up his butt to change colors when he gets bored |
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>with the old fashioned colors? the default ought to be colors OFF and |
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>you have to ask to get them. |
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>I choose fonts small enough to get maximum density with minimum eye |
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>strain. The only way I could read these colors would be to increase |
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>the font size and decrease the density. If gentoo developers think |
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>that a wise trade off when almost no other utility uses colors so much |
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>and so horribly, then gentoo is broken by design and no amount of bug |
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>reportage will change a damned thing. Harmony is a nice design |
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>feature. You ought to try it sometime. |
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>As long as I am ranting, I may as well throw in a few rants on the |
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>amateur kids who run gentoo; those who think the world should be |
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>thankful for their color choices are the same idiots who linked ls |
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>against a /usr/lib library and made my system ubootable, who removed |
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>libraries which LVM linked against during boot and made my system |
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>unbootable. Gentoo has good points, starting with portage, but it |
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>also has innumerable insufferable knowitalls who make me gnash my |
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>teeth at their inconsiderate unthinking fad-of-the-week behavior. |
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