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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:59:12 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH iproute2-next 1/2] configure: add the --color
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To: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>

On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:58:25 +0200
Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com> wrote:

> This commit allows users/packagers to choose a default for the color
> output feature provided by some iproute2 tools.
> 
> The configure script option is documented in the script itself and it is
> pretty much self-explanatory. The default value is set to "never" to
> avoid changes to the current ip, tc, and bridge behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
> ---

More build time config is not the answer either.
Don't want complaints from distribution users about the change.
Needs to be an environment variable or config file.