[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why do --nocolor and --color=n not work (sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.3)? > > Why does the damned thing default to thinking I want blaring bizarre > colors scattered all over my screen? > > What bozo thought all those colors were legible on every frikking > terminal and checking for --nocolor was unnecesary? > > I am so tired of this crap. Even editing /usr/bin/emerge to always > set output.havecolor to 0 doesn't disable color. I have to copy and > paste into an editor just to read the error messages. It has always > been so; most portage commands simply aassume I want all sorts of > colorized messages on my screen. Oooh, let's find a use for yellow, > and green, and blue, and red, well of course red, but let's make sure > we use EVERY FREAKING COLOR IN THE BOOK just because, well, BECAUSE WE > CAN. Let's IGNORE the TERM environmental variable while we're at it. > > I CAN'T EVEN DISABLE IT BY SETTING TERM TO vt100. > > And if ALL THESE CAPS distress you and you think I am shouting, well > goodness gracious, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT COLORIZATION RUN AMUCK. > > Retch. > >
I thought I was the only one that had to copy and paste it to Kwrite to read it. Sorry to say I'm not alone here. :-( He seems, well, . . . pissed. :/ Dale :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
