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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 22:20:46 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls ls.1 ls.c
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:40:15PM -0700, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>   Log:
>   A change to the way that colours are switched on in ls.  The -G
>   flag has been depricated, although it still works with a warning
>   message, and replaced with an environment variable CLICOLOR (command

Uh why?!?!?  I see zero reason for the warning.  Let people pick which
works for them -- options or env vars.  For those of us that don't care
for colour ls most of the time, but very occationally want it, the env
varable is very anonying.

CVS, diff, grep are just three examples of programs that offer the user
a choice between setting functionality w/both switches and env vars.
Mechanism, not policy.

Please remove this warning.

-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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