Initscripts and tput

[Nathaniel McCallum]

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

>After a long session hacking initscripts today, I realized that we are
>relying on tput to get ansi control characters.  This is not bad except
>that tput is in /usr/bin/ and /usr may not be available to use before
>mounting filesystems.  There is a couple solutions as i see it:
>
>1. move tput from /usr/bin to /bin in the terminfo-bin package
>2. fall back to hardcoded ansi control characters (may not work on some
>strange terminals)
>3. other solution...
>
>What do you think?
>  
>
I still need to know...

Nathaniel