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Bug 164498 - man emerge should include color descriptions
Summary: man emerge should include color descriptions
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Portage Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2007-01-30 05:23 UTC by Steven Oliver
Modified: 2007-06-06 01:07 UTC (History)
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Description Steven Oliver 2007-01-30 05:23:27 UTC
The colored output of an emerge command should documented in the emerge man page. While some of the colors may be obvious as they relate to a certain function, this is not always the case. Blue, for example, represents USE flags inside and outside of parenthesis. If blue is used in both cases, then what exactly does blue stand for? This should be addressed somewhere. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.man emerge
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-01-30 06:02:12 UTC
blue means it's disabled ... seems clear to me
Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-06 01:07:08 UTC
As colors are customizable theses days, not much point in referencing them. Also they aren't in any way authoritative, just a visual indicator.