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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:20:06 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006050919000.72373-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000604231722.H620@pavilion.net>

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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:59:24PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > That's 100K difference and certainly a significant increase, though
> > > one could also perhaps argue that at 189K, ls(1) is no longer the
> > > thin, svelte utility we remember from her youth and another chocolate
> > > eclair or two isn't going to make that big a difference at this point.
> > 
> > I think having a /bin/ls and a /usr/bin/ls would be the way to go then.
> > 
> > /bin/ls can be the "thin, svelte utility"
> > /usr/bin/ls can have all the eclairs it wants.
> 
> If we're going to do that we may as well keep colour support as a
> separate port.  There's no point having two ls's in the tree IMHO.

Or we could develop a "Plug In" model for ls...

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