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Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals

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Op wo 25 mei 2022 21:36 schreef Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>:

> And how, pray tell, may I know in advance what terminal will be used on the
> other end of the serial link?  Especially if it's a box people ssh into
> from
> random places, using a plethora of various terminals on their side?
> That's the most typical setup these days.
>

You can't really in that case; the terminal emulator will set the proper
value. Maybe it's wise to run tset in that case so if it's not what is
expected one can set it themselves. Or maybe they have set them themselves
as I do;

I agree that this is the most common setup but it doesn't change a thing
really. I set my x terminals to xterm-mono. When I use colors many things
become unreadable. Switching between black on white and white on black is
also troublesome without creating specialised palettes.

The only way I can see your idea to work, would be a list of ancient
> terminals that lack color (either handcrafted or queried via termcap), and
> relying on the user setting one of those.  But that way would be way way
> too
> niche to bother implementing in apt, I'd say.
>

Or the other way around as I proposed. The entire problem of knowing what
and how to use color goes away when curses is used. Would you accept a
patch for using that instead?

Kind regards,

Axel

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Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Axel <axel.scheepers76+debian@gmail.com> - 2022-05-10 15:20 +0200
  Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Daniel Abrecht <debian-apt@danielabrecht.ch> - 2022-05-10 16:50 +0200
  Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2022-05-10 17:00 +0200
    Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> - 2022-05-10 18:10 +0200
      Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com> - 2022-05-10 21:00 +0200
        Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2022-05-16 18:40 +0200
          Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com> - 2022-05-16 20:20 +0200
            Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2022-05-25 21:40 +0200
              Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com> - 2022-05-26 11:10 +0200
          Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Daniel Abrecht <debian-apt@danielabrecht.ch> - 2022-05-16 23:10 +0200
      Bug#1010806: apt: Avoid color output on monochrome terminals Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com> - 2022-05-10 21:50 +0200

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