[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/3] makepkg: fallback to legacy termcap capabilities

[Andres Perera]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> And in any case at all, do people actually *need* color? I'm thinking
> not and that patching some of this stuff might just be adding
> complexity for very little benefit.

Finally someone considers this route.

There's a good reason ports in *bsd (and userspace in general, really) don't
even try to use color. ncurses and termcap/info is a mess best dealt by someone
else.