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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] color: use "light" colors for dark background
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:50:20 -0800
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:22:13 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:11:42 +0100
> 
> >   
> >> > Chosen colors are questionable. Best solution would be also allow  
> >> user to  
> >> > redefine colors, like ls does with LS_COLORS or grep with  
> >> GREP_COLORS. But that  
> >> > is maybe overkill.  
> >> 
> >> I think you may have posted this to the wrong mailing list.  
> > 
> > Actually, it seems to just be missing the "iproute" (or so) prefix?  
> 
> Ok that makes more sense :)

Yes. Iproute2 has  had color support for a while.
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