schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareFrater Mus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoAgreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
minus-squareThe Doctor@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoIt’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
minus-squarehelaslo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoApt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 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-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 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
Agreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
It’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
Apt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
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.
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