Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] color: use "light" colors for dark background

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:50:20 -0800

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:22:13 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
> 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.
The CC list has the original developer