If you use the yaourt wrapper for pacman on Arch Linux you may have noticed that the --textonly option no longer works properly. After spending some time on various forums, wikis, bug trackers, and Google I was not able to find a solution to this problem. An inspection of the yaourt scripts reveals a stanza missing from a case block in the colors.sh include used to configure output colorization. I have created a patch to fix this minor annoyance:
The patch can be applied using standard patch syntax:
patch -p0 < yaourt_color_sh.patch