On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:26:47PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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.
<sarcasm>All you have to do is double your font size and they become
quite legible.</sarcasm>
> > 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.
At least ls's color comes from that damned alias. You can at least
use "/bin/ls" or prefix each command with "TERM=vt100" to get rid of
them temporarily, or "unalias -a" to get rid of them permanently per
login, or edit /etc/profile to get rid of them permanently forever.
At least the color options actually work.
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