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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c
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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006032357500.45538-100000@sasami.jurai.net> "Matthew N. Dodd" writes:
> : 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.
> 
> No.  The one thing worse than a big, bloated pig-dog of a ls that has
> more switches than indent(1) is to have two different versions of
> ls...

	As far as I can see, the consensus at this point is as follows:

1. We can (sometimes grudgingly) live with color as an _option_ in
/bin/ls.
2. The color options should be #ifdef'ed so that people who need a
slimmer ls can easily build one. (Thus anti-bloatists, picobsd, fixit
floppy people, etc.; can define "NOCOLORINLSNOWAYNOHOW" and be done with
it. :)
3. First choice for 'ls -G' should be tgetstr(), with the ANSI codes
left in as a fallback if that returns NULL. (Thus handling the case of
no mounted /usr as well as possible.)

I think that accurately describes the thinking at this point, but my
perspective is somewhat biased...

Doug
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