On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:33:19PM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote
> Dnia 2013-09-01, o godz. 16:49:34
> William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> napisa??(a):
> 
> > Please don't. I also do not want escape sequences in log files.
> 
> Ok, '--color' removed. However, I think we should work something out to
> get both parties satisfied. Maybe portage feature or a tool to 'uncruft'
> logs from escape sequences since many people actually benefit from them.

  As per my bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463954 it is a
pain.  Try figuring out the following as viewed in mc (Midnight
Commander)...

> WARN: prepare
> It seems that you need to set USE_PYTHON to make sure that legacy
> packages will be built with respect to PYTHON_TARGETS correctly:
>
>         USE_PYTHON='.[35;1m2.7.[0m'

  Note that...

grep foo bar.txt

...returns colour-highlighted text, while...

grep foo bar.txt > output.txt

...returns plain text.  So it can be done properly for everybody.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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