Yeah, that's a pretty reasonable concern. Environment variables can be problematic because they are usually inherited when spawning processes, and many build sy

Yeah, that's a pretty reasonable concern. Environment variables can be problematic because they are usually inherited when spawning processes, and many build systems rely on this for things like passing through compiler flags. I think that just having the CLICOLOR option would be reasonable, for enabling or disabling color to a TTY, but CLICOLOR_FORCE is more problematic.