On Wednesday 09 May 2007 10:42, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The main problem with all coloration and graphical output is that it > can only show problems anyone expected. The old Debian scripts output > was quite uniform and thus anything out of the row was easy to spot > and look what it is. Now some scripts tend to introduce colors and > one gets totaly disrupted looking at it. And there is nothing more > ridicule than seeing some large red "FAILED" after a message telling > everything succeded. Or some message indication critical failure > followed by a large green OK.
I agree with that. One my desktop I currently get a fat red FAILED during shutdown because an LVM volume cannot be unmounted as it is in use (or maybe it is still #402511, I have not investigated). Totally stupid.
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