[pacman-dev] Please make the colourised output exactly like that of "pacman-color"

[Allan McRae]

On 07/04/13 20:10, Xavion wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It's great that "pacman" finally has native colour support in v4.1.0.  It's
> just a shame that it's not as good as that of "pacman-color".  Without
> meaning any offence, it falls way short of the mark IMHO.
> 
> I'm hoping you can just replicate the colourisation of "pacman-color".  For
> your convenience, I've attached the relevant files you'd need.  I'm only
> requesting this because "pacman-color" no longer exists.
> 

That patch is a steaming pile of hackery.  So the color output needed to
be rewritten to become included in pacman.

Rather than just attaching a ~1300 line file that no longer applies in
any way and stating that it is better, you might like to actually state
what is currently missing?

Allan