This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.25.0032 +0100]: > > The second question is (on a completely unrelated note): is there > > any problem with assuming the presence of a color capable $TERM > > Yes. > > > and is > > anything likely to break if I do? > > Output will be unlegible, as it will be interspersed by escape > codes.
Right. > > I have seen other linuces that use coloration in init.d scripts > > for success and failure, and I thought it looked kind of cool. > > Since it's easy, I was thinking about doing it in the binary > > packages, but I wanted to ask if it was a bad idea first. > > Uh, make sure you read over the policy, please. I don't think it's > allowed to use colour in the init.d scripts. Which other packages do > so? This isn't RedHat, you know? :) I know, but there is nothing in policy that I could see about this, which is why I asked. No problem, though - this was just sort of an add on that doesn't affect anything, so I won't do so. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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