coloured prompt for root (was ... Re: Reporting missing package during install)

["Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it>]

Chris Bannister writes:

 > This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other
 > virtual terminal.

The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure
xterm, the rxvt family and the libvte-based ones do.

But with virtual terminals you can do something like having a
different background and foreground color (red on black is standard in
my family).

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Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO