On Wednesday 04 April 2007 17:53:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (b) Switching color off is easier than you might imagine, since all of > the following DO NOT WORK: > > TERM=vt100 > > |less > > NOCOLOR=true > --nocolor > --color=n > editing /usr/bin/emerge to always set havecolor = 0
They all work for the rest of us. As you've been told many times by now. [SNIP] > This was such atriociously bad coding that I just edited it out, > figuring that a bug report would be lost on such feeble minds. Yeah, ranting is so much better... [SNIP] > Apparently the Gentoo standard is to add features without testing > them. Except they are tested and working for everyone else (except maybe some people like you who don't bother to report it properly..). > Somewhere along the way, "--nocolor" became unfashionable and > was replaced by "--color=n", but "--nospinner" is still favored, > possibly because the fad police haven't discovered it yet and replaced > it by "--spinner=n". Because noone has requested a --force-spinner wanting to see it through a pipe. I was one of the people requesting a --force-color equivalent for use with less or files that I can cat. At first it was implemented as NOCOLOR=no. Later came --color = y | n. The moving target actually comes from the fact that they do respond to bug reports from those of us who bother to report our issues.. -- Bo Andresen
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