On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:10:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 23:00, Magnus Granberg wrote: > > tisdag 03 september 2013 22.41.14 skrev Alan McKinnon: > > .... > >> I *do* like colorized text on my terminal, but I do believe we > >> ought to keep defaults sane - the minimum that could possibly > >> work. Everything extra should be optional > > > > What about NOCOLOR="false" in make.conf see man make.conf for more > > info. /Magnus > > That affects terminal output too. > > It does not seem desirable to force terminal and logs to always have > the same setting. To my mind the sane approach would be individual > config settings for both with sane defaults. This discussion should not be about our users; we should not change user behavior or introduce unnecessary config settings based on a discussion that intends to deal with the build logs that we download from Bugzilla. > But, and here's the catch, that then means one can't simply tee output > to two places. There would have to be two output threads. This seems > like a LOT of work to implement Yes, I believe Zac stated that in another sub thread. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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