On 2/6/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/6/07, Vojtěch Gondžala <vogo@seznam.cz> wrote:
Hi all,
this patch add coloured output in to pacman-3.0.0
diff is here: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xgondz/pacman3-color/pacman3-color.diff
I think the general consensus is that coloring pacman output is bad, but I really have no technical opinion.
My opinion on color is this- it seems to make more sense in bash scripting than C programming. However, it is something often asked for, so I don't want to say it isn't something that should be considered. I guess I would say this...perhaps we should wait for pacman 3.1 when we try to refine the output system a bit. Right now, pm_fprintf, MSG, and ERR just make a lot of trouble it seems, and we need to fix those up a bit. I'd like to see the kind of color that this patch provides to see what direction we should go with changing the output functions. -Dan