Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.comexternal-link schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 5 months ago message-square20fedilinkarrow-up1162
arrow-up1162external-linkDebian spices up APT package manager with a dash of colorwww.theregister.com schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 5 months ago message-square20fedilink
minus-square Frater Mus ( @fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish6•5 months agoAgreed. I haven’t read the article yet, but my first thought was “how am I going to turn that off”
minus-square The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoIt’ll be fun filtering all the color codes out of build logs, that’s for sure. :/
minus-square helaslo ( @helaslo@lemm.ee ) linkfedilink5•5 months agoApt even warns you to not use it for anything scripting related, apt-get has a stable interface for exactly that
minus-square ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 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-square mexicancartel ( @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•5 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