On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 08:09:24PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, Julian, > > Thanks for adding the colour support in apt 2.0.1. > > I'm curious though, most implementations use isatty() to determine the > default colour control setting, which it seems that your implementation > lacks, instead only outputting colour when explicitly enabled via `-o > APT::Color=true`. > > Was it a deliberate decision to not make use of isatty() to determine a > default?
That's how it works, apt(8) sets APT::Color to true by default, and the code sets it to false if stdout is not a tty. Which it already did before, as you can see in apt list, for example. As is customary, for compatibility reasons, apt-get(8) and apt-cache and friends do not change behavior. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
