TIP_Remap_Portage_Colors

Portage Output before (left) and after (right) remapping the color yellow to fuchsia

Since Portage 2.1 there is a new feature about color remapping. This can be done via editing /etc/portage/color.map.

Let us map yellow to something different:

echo "yellow=fuchsia" >> /etc/portage/color.map

The syntax is

• color=color
• color=hexvalue (e.g. 0x00AAAA)

The list of colors is here: /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py

But please note that colorized output of qfile and possibly some other tools currently (as of portage-utils 0.1.20) were not written initially to take RGB values into account. For such colors you should use ASCII escape sequences instead:

• turquoise=34;1m

Color table for this notation: http://www.gentoo.org/images/docs/prompt-magic-colortable.gif