[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: use tput for terminal-safe colored and bold text

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Oct 22 20:41:05 EDT 2009


Cedric Staniewski wrote:
> Suggested-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
> Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca>
> ---
>
> I do not know if this patch is usefull at all, because I do not notice any
> change. Just grabbed this from Dan's TODO list and wanted to play a bit
> with tput.
>   

It looks fine to me... 

I just have no idea on the advantage we are achieving with this change 
apart from the apparent terminal safeness.  Was the old version not safe?

Dan: comments?



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