[arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> Why the informative text output from a package manager should use
> anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the
> face of the Arch KISS philosophy.

As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to check for the capability and
using the escape sequence presented there if it exists then that would
seem fine.  If it just blindly writes bytes and assumes the world can
understand them...  And Thomas Dickey's xterm(1) is superb in its
correctness so that's the main thing to test it with.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.