Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Greg Wooledge wrote: 
> >From an end user's point of view, the three main differences between
> "apt-get" and "apt" are:
> 
> 3) apt uses a horrible yellow color that is nigh-unreadable on a white
>    background.  (This is not configurable.)

It appears that it is, just badly documented.

In /etc/apt/apt.conf, you can specify the escape sequences for
colors like this:

APT::Color::Yellow "ESC[33m";


changing 33 to 30 will get you black. ANSI color escapes are on
the web in many places.

-dsr-