Bug 263423

Summary:	app-portage/portage-utils should detect ttys and terminal capabilities
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	michael <michael>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Utils Team <portage-utils>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description michael@smith-li.com 2009-03-22 22:05:53 UTC

q outputs colors under many conditions. However, when the terminal doesn't support colors, and when stdout is not a tty, q should not output colors, even if the -C flag isn't specified.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-12-05 09:56:51 UTC

that means using and linking against ncurses, neither of which i want to do

the whole point of -C is to *disable* colors, not enable, so i dont really understand the last part of your statement

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-06-08 05:33:05 UTC

i dont really like this kind of auto-magic detection, plus we cant really do it cleanly without pulling in deps, plus i like having color when piping into less