On Wednesday 04 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:19:09PM +0100, Nelson, David J wrote: > > Do we want a UNIX standard? A linux standard? A Gentoo standard? A lowest > > common denominator standard? A "what most people prefer" standard? > > I am not talking about which colors to use, which is a personal > preference and can have no standard. I am talking about the most > basic principles, that all programs behave the same and can be enabled > or disabled in the same way. When gentoo unilaterally decides to do > the opposite, it sticks out like a sore thumb. The proper way to add > color to emerge and its affiliates would have been with an alias, as > it does with ls, not by adding hard coded escape chars to messages, > nor by defaulting to color enabled and adding untested non-functional > control features to disable it.
The *proper* way is also a personal preference. I like it the way it is, you don't. But we've got to start somewhere. For the record, disabling color works fine on my systems. > > Insults rarely get you anywhere. Constructive feedback and discussion are > > generally better options FYI. > > Like I said. My experience has been that people who don't follow even > the most rudimentary principles, like testing features, following > standards, and reusing existing code rather than hard coding magic > numbers, simply do not listen to old farts who file bug reports. This > has been from years of experience with coworkers and with mailing > lists. > > My rant here has been to let off steam. I am not going to waste time > filing a bug report about magic numbers, standards, and testing new > features, when those are the things that should be taught in the first > weeks of any programming course and explained in the first chapters of > any programming book. I might as well explain 2+2=4 to someone > screwing up his calculus homework. Are we even talking about the same code? I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work for you, so unless you plan to ditch emerge, ditch Gentoo, switch to Paludis or file a bugreport. You'll be looking at the pretty colors for a while. `which emerge` does actually yield `/usr/bin/emerge` does it? Anyway, please allow us to help or just stop posting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
