Created attachment 842941 [details, diff] Patch to make colouring of 'ip' output by default optional In bug 820236 the colouring of 'ip' output was enabled by default, but with my setup (might be my monitor, my terminal, or my eyes) it is very difficult to read IPv6 addresses. This patch keeps the functionality asked for by bug 820236 but makes it optional, and sticks to upstream by default. Thanks Luke
I would be in favor of simply dropping the patch and sticking with upstream defaults. There's really no strong reason to override this at the distro level.
It's enough of a nicety that I think it's nice to have a USE flag for it, but I guess doing it by default isn't nice wrt expectations, so will need to either go for patch Luke suggests or something functionally equivalent with some -DFOO.
defaulting color to on is better handled as an alias in /etc/bash/bashrc like all our other commands alias ip='ip --color=auto'
Created attachment 857075 [details, diff] Patch to make colouring of 'ip' output by default optional Old patch doesn't quite apply cleanly against sys-apps/iproute2-6.2.0-r1.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=af7b77d3b451d7d8b58babb471902d07d20ca803 commit af7b77d3b451d7d8b58babb471902d07d20ca803 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-03-09 19:55:07 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-03-09 19:55:07 +0000 sys-apps/iproute2: drop iproute2-default-color-auto.patch This diverges from upstream defaults for no good reason. Users can set up a shell alias if they really want to enable colors by default. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/820236 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886187 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> sys-apps/iproute2/{iproute2-6.2.0.ebuild => iproute2-6.2.0-r1.ebuild} | 1 - sys-apps/iproute2/iproute2-9999.ebuild | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
(In reply to Luke Bratch from comment #0) > but with my setup (might be my monitor, my terminal, or my eyes) it is > very difficult to read IPv6 addresses. Do you use dark background? ip accepts COLORFGBG environment variable which helps to chose colors suitable for dark background, see man ip(8). In case you like colored output as I do.
