On 2007-04-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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?
Yea, nothing is quite as readible as yellow or bright green on a white background. I hate color output. I'm completely baffled that anybody thinks it should be the default. > 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. Worse than emerge is that ls and other more commonly used utilities all default to utterly-illegible mode on Gentoo. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Eisenhower!! Your at mimeograph machine upsets visi.com my stomach!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list