[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman: print colored optdepends install status

[Ivy Foster]

On 12 Dec 2018, at 11:31 am +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 10/12/18 3:31 am, Michael Straube wrote:
> > Colorize [installed] and [pending] when printing optional dependencies.

> I'd prefer having less colours in our search operations, rather than
> bringing those colours into other operations.

> Anyone want to give other opinions on this?

Agreed; I tend to prefer black-and-white output. Also,
tools like lesspipe and multitail can colorize any program's stdout
without having to add color support to the original program (or in
this case, further complicate existing color support).

Cheers,
Ivy ("escondida")
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