Re: Why is TERM=vt100 on the console?

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:55:44 +0200
    From:        Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20180913105544.GB23747%mail.duskware.de@localhost>

  | On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:47:59PM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote:
  | > export TERM=wsvt25
  | > 
  | > makes a number of console applications display colors.
  | > 
  | > Why is this not the default?
  |
  | It should be the default for newer installs, but it is not changed on
  | updates.

And for why, vt100 is more likely to work than anything else that could
be picked aside from "dumb" - including for serial consoles (not everyone
uses a wscons, even on amd64 installs).

And also, most apps that use colours (terminal colours, where the supported
choices are usually quite limited) are *ugly* and having them supressed
is no loss at all!

kre