Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 21 Jan 2004 19:00, Karl Eklund wrote: > > Is there a general interface to turn off all colors in the output of > > the gentoo tools? As it is now, for example, running "genlop -l" in a > > default setup gnome terminal (black on white) writes stuff like > > > > Wed Jan 21 00:51:04 2004 sfs-0.7.2 has been . > > > > (white on white). If I were to decide, colors would be off by default > > since we do not know anything of the user's setup... > > > Just type genlop by itself and it will tell you. Here it's -w to turn > of colour. In other tools try -nc before using --help.
Thanks. qpkg uses -nc it seems. But for emerge it seems the setting of NOCOLOR="true" in /etc/make.conf is how to do it. Perhaps qpkg, genlop etc should read this too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list