schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down12
arrow-up1117arrow-down1external-linkDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comschizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareFrater Mus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoAgreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoProbably it will have an option --no-color or something as well as config. Somebody will ask for it for a specific niche use case and it might not be hard to implement within apt so they add it
minus-squareThe Doctor@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoIt’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoSo far almost any Linux software I have used and supports colored output automatically turns off coloring if it detects that stdout is not a terminal.
minus-squarehelaslo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoApt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
Agreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
Probably it will have an option --no-color or something as well as config. Somebody will ask for it for a specific niche use case and it might not be hard to implement within apt so they add it
It’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
So far almost any Linux software I have used and supports colored output automatically turns off coloring if it detects that stdout is not a terminal.
Apt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that