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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Apr 27 07:34:59 UTC 2016


On 27/04/16 15:45, Xavion wrote:
>>
>> You only have a pallet of 8 colours you can reasonably work with and
>> they're almost all allocated. The full table has around 30 unique rows,
>> which show depends on various conditions. Which are important enough to
>> allocate a colour too?
>>
> 
> I don't know, you're the one telling the story.  I just want the "-{Q,S}i"
> colours to be consistent with the rest of 'pacman'.  Including my patch is
> the best (known) way to achieve this.

Removing lots of unnecessary colour in -s/-o operations is better.

And this conversation is done - the patch for -Si colouring has been
rejected by the two lead developers.  There is no-one left to convince
to include it.

Allan


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