Control: severity -1 wishlist On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 08:57:10 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-04-30 18:47 -0400, Brad Barnett wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.18.23 > > > > Newer versions of dpkg have colourized output. > > > > I can see the usage case for this, and I can see the value for some. > > > > However, for others, it is a major detractor. > > > > One of the issues with the recent colourization of the userland, is that > > each has its own way to disable it. > > > > Which is why /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable exists, as far as I can see. > > > > Yet, dpkg does not respect /etc/terminal-colors.d/disable. dmesg does. > > Lots of other packages do. > > AFAICS, those "lots of other packages" are all built from the same > source package, namely util-linux[1]. So this is far from standardized.
Indeed, went through the same process of searching on codesearch and then checking the man page, and reaching some blog posts from util-linux upstream briefly describing this stuff. Will need to check if there's other alternative prior art and similar. I'm a bit undecided about this though, in a way it sounds nice, but dunno. Thanks, Guillem
